Domain-general versus domain-specific accounts of specific language impairment: Evidence from bilingual children's acquisition of object pronouns

Language Acquisition

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-62

  Paradis, Johanne ^a   Crago, Martha ^b   Genesee, Fred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 33745968535     PISSN: 10489223     EISSN: 15327817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327817la1301_3     Document Type: Article

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