Autonomous and interdependent development of two language systems in Japanese/English simultaneous bilinguals: Evidence from question formation

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Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 291-315

  Mishina Mori, Satomi ^a  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilingual first language acquisition; Child grammar; Competition Model; Independent Development Hypothesis; Interrogatives; Naturalistic data; Syntactic development; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249167642     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723705052560     Document Type: Article

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