Exploring Regularities and Dynamic Systems in L2 Development

Language Learning

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 89-122

  Lenzing, Anke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Morpho syntactic development; Processability Theory; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938507582     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lang.12092     Document Type: Article

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