Frills, furbelows and activated memory: syntactically optional elements in the spontaneous language production of bilingual speakers

Language Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 497-511

  Fehringer, Carol ^a   Fry, Christina ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Complexity; L2; Memory; Optional element

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447310340     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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