Theoretical implications of object clitic omission in early French: Spontaneous vs. elicited production

Catalan Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 221-236

  Pirvulescu, Mihaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elicited production; French; Object clitic omission; Spontaneous production

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044812701     PISSN: 16956885     EISSN: 20149719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.70     Document Type: Article

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