French-Dutch bilinguals do not maintain obligatory semantic distinctions: Evidence from placement verbs

Bilingualism

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-37

  Alferink, Inge ^a   Gullberg, Marianne ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Convergence; Dutch; French; Functional bilinguals; Placement verbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889690031     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136672891300028X     Document Type: Article

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