(In)complete acquisition of Turkish among Turkish-German bilinguals in Germany and Turkey: An analysis of complex embeddings in narratives

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 248-276

  Treffers Daller, Jeanine ^a   Özsoy, A Sumru ^b   Van Hout, Roeland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; Bilingualism; German; Incomplete acquisition; Syntax; Turkish

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347241360     PISSN: 13670050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/beb443.0     Document Type: Article

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