The production and processing of determiner– noun agreement in child l2 dutch

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-290

  Blom, Elma ^a   Vasić, Nada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Child L2 acquisition; Determiner noun agreement; Grammatical gender; Language environment; Self paced listening; Sentence completion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989364675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18799264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lab.1.3.03blo     Document Type: Article

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