Syntactic acquisition in bilingual children: Autonomous or interdependent?

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-25

  Paradis, Johanne ^a   Genesee, Fred ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 77951289200     PISSN: 02722631     EISSN: 14701545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263100014662     Document Type: Article

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