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Publication details [#27051]

Mellow, J. Dean and Alister Cumming. 1994. Concord in interlanguage: Efficiency or priming? Applied Linguistics 15 (4) : 444–473.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
0142-6001

Annotation

This study refutes and complements forms of the efficiency argument proposed by previous research on grammatical concord acquisition, by presenting an alternative view that advances the positive effects of priming, as illustrated in compositions of French and Japanese learners of English.