Morphological congruency and the acquisition of L2 morphemes

Language Learning

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 940-967

  Jiang, Nan ^a   Novokshanova, Eugenia ^b   Masuda, Kyoko ^c   Wang, Xin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Grammaticalized meanings; Japanese; Morphological congruency; Morphological development; Plural; Russian; Self paced reading; Steady state; Ultimate attainment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960984640     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00627.x     Document Type: Article

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