What variables condition syntactic transfer? A look at the l3 initial state

Second Language Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-218

  Rothman, Jason ^a   Amaro, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosslinguistic influence; L2 Spanish; L3 French; L3 Italian; Null subject parameter; Psychotypology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953050326     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658309349410     Document Type: Article

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