That's not so different from the: Definite and demonstrative descriptions in second language acquisition

Second Language Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-101

  Ionin, Tania ^a   Baek, Soondo ^a   Kim, Eunah ^a   Ko, Heejeong ^b   Wexler, Kenneth ^c  

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

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

articles; definiteness; demonstratives; determiners; nouns; semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855406394     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658311432200     Document Type: Article

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