Differential effects of internal and external factors on the development of vocabulary, tense morphology and morpho-syntax in successive bilingual children

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 318-345

  Chondrogianni, Vasiliki ^a,b   Marinis, Theodoros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Child L2 acquisition; Internal and external factors; Profile effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989392604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18799264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lab.1.3.05cho     Document Type: Article

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