Reassessing the applicability of processability theory: The case of nominal plural

Second Language Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 509-533

  Charters, Helen ^a   Dao, Loan ^b   Jansen, Louise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

acquisition of ESL nominal plural; acquisition of number; acquisition of plurality; cognitive linguistics; English second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052879191     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658311405923     Document Type: Article

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