Grammatical features of Egyptian and Palestinian Arabic heritage speakers' oral production

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 273-303

  Albirini, Abdulkafi ^a   Benmamoun, Elabbas ^a   Saadah, Eman ^a  

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

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EID: 79956104698     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263110000768     Document Type: Article

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