Deconstructing comprehensibility

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 475-505

  Isaacs, Talia ^a   Trofimovich, Pavel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

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EID: 84865225665     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263112000150     Document Type: Article

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