Japanese learners’ acquisition of English manner-of-motion verbs with locational/directional PPs

Second Language Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-27

  Inagaki, Shunji ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

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EID: 84992838771     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0267658302sr196oa     Document Type: Article

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