Verbal inflectional morphology in l1 and l2 Spanish: A frequency effects study examining storage versus composition

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-87

  Bowden, Harriet Wood ^a   Gelfand, Matthew P ^b   Sanz, Cristina ^b   Ullman, Michael T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Composition; Frequency effects; Inflection; Irregular; Morphology; Regular; Spanish; Stem change; Storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950126374     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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