Acquisition of article semantics by child and adult L2-English learners

Bilingualism

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 337-361

  Ionin, Tania ^a   Zubizarreta, Mara Luisa ^b   Philippov, Vadim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OREL STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 76149096518     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728909990149     Document Type: Article

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