Clitics and object expression in the l3 acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese: Structural similarity matters for transfer

Second Language Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-58

  Montrul, Silvina ^a   Dias, Rejanes ^a   Santos, Hélade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazilian Portuguese; clitics; L2 acquisition; L3 acquisition; morphosyntax; null objects; Spanish; transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650466241     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658310386649     Document Type: Article

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