Feature Interpretability in L2 Acquisition and SLI: Greek Clitics and Determiners

The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 142-183

  Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria ^a   Mastropavlou, Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315085340-6     Document Type: Chapter

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