Introduction. Beyond the obvious: Do second language learners process inflectional morphology?

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Gor, Kira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Inflection; Inflectional morphology; Morphosyntax; Priming; Regular and irregular morphology; Storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950227326     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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