‘Maman, je suis polyglotte!’: A case study of multilingual language acquisition from 0 to 5 years

International Journal of Multilingualism

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-122

  Maneva, Blagovesta ^a  

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Author keywords

Acquisition; Code separation; Codemixing; Input; Multilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248695159     PISSN: 14790718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14790710408668182     Document Type: Article

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