Nonnative processing of verbal morphology: In search of regularity

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-126

  Gor, Kira ^a   Cook, Svetlana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Frequency; Heritage speakers; Inflectional morphology; Late L2 learners; Priming; Processing; Regular and irregular verbs; Russian

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950149973     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00552.x     Document Type: Article

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