L3 syntactic transfer selectivity and typological determinacy: The typological primacy model

Second Language Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-127

  Rothman, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

adjectival semantics; adjectival syntax; English; Italian; L3 acquisition; Portuguese; Spanish; transfer; typological proximity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650493695     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658310386439     Document Type: Article

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