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Publication details [#36427]

Thomas, Margaret. 1992. The acquisition of English articles by first- and second-language learners. Applied Psycholinguistics 10 (3) : 335–355.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

definite article | L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | referentiality

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0142-7164

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper suggests that both first and second language learners may share an initial strategy associating the definite article 'the' with referential nouns.