Spanish gender agreement under complete and incomplete acquisition: Early and late bilinguals' linguistic behavior within the noun phrase

Bilingualism

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 332-350

  Alarcón, Irma V ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingualism; gender agreement; heritage Spanish speakers; second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958849972     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728910000222     Document Type: Article

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