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Lexical development in second language acquisition: initial stages in a Japanese child's learning of English*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Leslie Rescorla
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Sachiko Okuda
Affiliation:
Daito-Bunka University

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