A cross-linguistic and bilingual evaluation of the interdependence between lexical and grammatical domains

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 315-337

  Simon Cereijido, Gabriela ^a   Gutirrez Clellen, Vera F ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70449404814     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716409090134     Document Type: Article

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