Around and beyond the critical period hypothesis

Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 407-425

  Singleton, David ^a   Muñoz, Carmen ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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