Age of onset and nativelike l2 ultimate attainment of morphosyntactic and phonetic intuition

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-214

  Abrahamsson, Niclas ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84861078263     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263112000022     Document Type: Article

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