Pinning down the concept of "interface" in bilingualism

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-33

  Sorace, Antonella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaphora resolution; Bilingualism; Interfaces; Pragmatics; Processing; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968735818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18799264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lab.1.1.01sor     Document Type: Review

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