Processing of regular and irregular past tense morphology in highly proficient second language learners of English: A self-paced reading study

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 943-970

  Pliatsikas, Christos ^a   Marinis, Theodoros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84884274791     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716412000082     Document Type: Article

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