Cross-linguistic differences and their impact on L2 sentence processing

Bilingualism

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-82

  Jackson, Carrie N ^a   Dussias, Paola E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67649646395     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728908003908     Document Type: Article

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