The Critical Period Hypothesis: A coat of many colours

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 269-285

  Singleton, David ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 28844443338     PISSN: 0019042X     EISSN: 16134141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/iral.2005.43.4.269     Document Type: Review

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