Testing the Positive Transfer Hypothesis: Acquisition of English Reflexive Binding by Cantonese Learners

Yip, Virginia; Tang, Gladys

doi:10.1075/lald.19.08yip

In:Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge
Edited by Maria-Luise Beck
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 19] 1998
► pp. 165–194

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Acquisition of English Reflexive Binding by Cantonese Learners

Testing the Positive Transfer Hypothesis

Virginia Yip

Gladys Tang

Published online: 15 December 1998

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.19.08yip

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