Grammatical gender in L2: A production or a real-time processing problem?

Second Language Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 191-215

  Grüter, Theres ^a   Lew Williams, Casey ^b   Fernald, Anne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

eye tracking; grammatical gender; L2; online processing; production; Spanish; ultimate attainment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861802764     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658312437990     Document Type: Article

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