Missing verbal inflections as a representational problem evidence from self-paced reading

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 109-140

  Van Patten, Bill ^a   Keating, Gregory D ^b   Leeser, Michael J ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Representation; Second language inflectional morphology; Self paced reading; Sensitivity to grammatical violations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989405089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18799264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lab.2.2.01pat     Document Type: Article

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