Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children: Can input frequency account for it?

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2638-2650

  Hauser Grüdl, Nicole ^a   Arencibia Guerra, Lastenia ^a   Witzmann, Franziska ^a   Leray, Estelle ^a   Müller, Natascha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilingual language acquisition; Cross linguistic influence; Language influence in adults; Parental language input; Subject realization; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952871576     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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