Clitic placement in Spanish-English bilingual children

Bilingualism

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-232

  Pérez Leroux, Ana Teresa ^a   Cuza, Alejandro ^b   Thomas, Danielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

clitic climbing; interfaces; Spanish; transfer; word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251605118     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728910000234     Document Type: Article

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