DISCUSSION: Verb classes, event structure, and second language learners knowledge of semantics-syntax correspondences

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 305-313

  Juffs, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 84937342145     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S027226310100208X     Document Type: Article

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