On the role of experience and age-related effects: Evidence from the Spanish CP

Second Language Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-28

  Cuza, Alejandro ^a   Frank, Joshua ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

age effects; cross linguistic influence; indirect questions; L2 acquisition of Spanish; Spanish CP; Spanish heritage speakers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920576440     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: 14770326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658314532939     Document Type: Article

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