Acquisition of the constraints on wanna contraction by advanced second language learners: Universal grammar and imperfect knowledge

Second Language Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-228

  Kweon, Soo Ok ^a   Bley Vroman, Robert ^b  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

constraints on contraction; imperfect knowledge; universal grammar; wanna contraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953317674     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658310375756     Document Type: Article

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