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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. 691–695

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Commentary

Problematizing the scope of language attrition from the perspective of bilingual returnees

 | Universidade do Minho
Published online: 1 February 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.00006.flo
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