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Commentary published In: Epistemological issue with keynote article “The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development” by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:6] 2017
► pp. 673–677

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Commentary

Beyond steady-state models of ultimate attainment

 | Indiana University
 | Indiana University
Published online: 1 February 2018
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