Adult second language acquisition A selective overview with a focus on the learner linguistic system

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-72

  Slabakova, Roumyana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical Period Hypothesis; generative approaches to SLA; linguistic input; processing; the Bilingual Turn; usage based approaches to SLA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969242903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18799264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lab.3.1.03sla     Document Type: Review

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