Acquisition of the article theby nonnative speakers of english

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-26

  Liu, Dilin ^a   Gleason, Johanna L ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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EID: 84937387541     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263102001018     Document Type: Article

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