What can language learners tell us about constructions?

Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar: A Volume in Honour of René Dirven

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 197-230

  Manzanares, Javier Valenzuela ^a   López, Ana María Rojo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acceptability judgement tasks; Constructions; Corpus study; Foreign language learning; Pedagogical implications; Sorting

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EID: 84984534681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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