First language attrition and syntactic subjects: A study of Greek and Italian near-native speakers of English

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 257-277

  Tsimpli, Ianthi ^a   Sorace, Antonella ^b   Heycock, Caroline ^b   Filiaci, Francesca ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attrition; pronouns; subjects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644909906     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13670069040080030601     Document Type: Article

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