Language impairment in bilingual children: State of the art 2017

Marinis, Theodoros; Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Pontikas, George

doi:10.1075/lab.00001.mar

Introduction published In: Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017
Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4] 2017
► pp. 265–276

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Introduction

Language impairment in bilingual children

State of the art 2017

Theodoros Marinis | University of Reading

Sharon Armon-Lotem | Bar Ilan University

George Pontikas | University of Reading

Published online: 21 July 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.00001.mar

Article outline

Bilingualism and SLI: 2017
The special issue
Summary and future research
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