Cross-linguistic evidence for the nature of age effects in second language acquisition

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 413-438

  Dekeyser, Robert ^a   Alfi Shabtay, Iris ^b   Ravid, Dorit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 77957259638     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716410000056     Document Type: Article

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