Processability Theory and German Case Acquisition

Language Learning

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 455-505

  Baten, Kristof ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acquisition of German case system; German case system; Instructed second language acquisition; Processability Theory; Sequence of acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955795156     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00615.x     Document Type: Article

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