Restructuring in the L1 Turkish grammar: Effects of L2 English and L2 Dutch

LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-250

  Gürel, Ayşe ^a   Yílmaz, Gülsen ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

First language attrition; Grammatical restructuring; Pronoun binding; Second language influence; Turkish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84555187709     PISSN: 18797865     EISSN: 18797873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lia.2.2.03gur     Document Type: Article

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