The Role of Semantic Features in the Acquisition of English Articles by Russian and Korean Speakers

The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 226-268

  Ionin, Tania ^a,b   Ko, Heejeong ^c   Wexler, Kenneth ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315085340-8     Document Type: Chapter

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