Uses of eye-tracking data in second language sentence processing research

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 30, Issue , 2010, Pages 149-166

  Dussias, Paola E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79952872245     PISSN: 02671905     EISSN: 14716356     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1017/S026719051000005X     Document Type: Review

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