Reexamining the fundamental difference hypothesis: What can early bilinguals tell us?

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-257

  Montrul, Silvina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 71749088950     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263109090299     Document Type: Article

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