Clitic placement in L2 French: Evidence from sentence matching

Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 487-525

  Duffield, Nigel ^a   White, Lydia ^a   Bruhn De Garavito, Joyce ^b   Montrul, Silvina ^c   Prévost, Philippe ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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EID: 85016803378     PISSN: 00222267     EISSN: 14697742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022226702001688     Document Type: Article

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