Some thoughts on the contrastive analysis of features in second language acquisition

Second Language Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-227

  Lardiere, Donna ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contrastive analysis; Features; functional categories; parameter resetting; plural marking; Universal Grammar in second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649198661     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658308100283     Document Type: Article

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