The role of semantic transfer in clitic drop among simultaneous and sequential chinese-spanish bilinguals

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-125

  Cuza, Alejandro ^a   Pérez Leroux, Ana Teresa ^b   Sánchez, Liliana ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84874919499     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263112000691     Document Type: Article

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