Acquiring the scope of disjunction and negation in L2: A bidirectional study of learners of Japanese and English

Language Acquisition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 127-154

  Grüter, Theres ^a   Lieberman, Moti ^b   Gualmini, Andrea ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77955347352     PISSN: 10489223     EISSN: 15327817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2010.497403     Document Type: Article

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