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Publication details [#32894]

Gibbs, Dorothy A. 1990. Second Language Acquisition of the English Modal Auxiliaries can, could, may, and might. Applied Linguistics 11 (3) : 297–314.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L2-acquisition | modal verb

Language as a subject

Punjabi

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study examines Punjabi-speaking pupils' second language acquisition of the English modal auxiliaries can, could, may, and might.