L1 influence on the acquisition order of English grammatical morphemes: A learner corpus study

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L1 influence on the acquisition order of English grammatical morphemes : A learner corpus study. / Murakami, Akira; Alexopoulou, Theodora.

In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 38, No. 3, 09.2016, p. 365-401.

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Murakami, A & Alexopoulou, T 2016, 'L1 influence on the acquisition order of English grammatical morphemes: A learner corpus study', Studies in Second Language Acquisition, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 365-401. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263115000352

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Murakami, A., & Alexopoulou, T. (2016). L1 influence on the acquisition order of English grammatical morphemes: A learner corpus study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 38(3), 365-401. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263115000352

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Murakami A, Alexopoulou T. L1 influence on the acquisition order of English grammatical morphemes: A learner corpus study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 2016 Sep;38(3):365-401. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263115000352

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Murakami, Akira ; Alexopoulou, Theodora. / L1 influence on the acquisition order of English grammatical morphemes : A learner corpus study. In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 2016 ; Vol. 38, No. 3. pp. 365-401.

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