Near-Nativeness

The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 130-151

  Sorace, Antonella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grammars; Linguistics; Near nativeness; Optionality; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955356314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756492.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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