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Our purpose in this paper is to apply selected notions from cognitive grammar, natural phonology, and item response theory in order to give better insight on ESL subjects’ processing of the D and Z morphemes in English.
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Perkins, K., Brutten, S.R. (1990). Using Cognitive Grammar, Natural Phonology, and Item Response Theory to Explain ESL Subjects’ Control of the [D] and [Z] Morphemes. In: Arena, L.A. (eds) Language Proficiency. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0870-4_5
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