Decomposition of inflected words in a second language: An experimental study of German participles

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 403-435

  Neubauer, Kathleen ^a   Clahsen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 71749116822     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263109090354     Document Type: Article

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