The Role of Features in Syntactic Theory and Language Variation

The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 22-47

  Travis, Lisa DeMena ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315085340-2     Document Type: Chapter

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