Whose? L2-English speakers' possessive pronoun gender errors

Bilingualism

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 318-331

  Antón Méndez, Inés ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

bilingualism; gender errors; possessive pronouns; second language speakers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958799402     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728910000325     Document Type: Article

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