Crosslinguistic influence is not necessarily attrition

Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria

doi:10.1075/lab.00021.tsi

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. 759–762

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Commentary

Crosslinguistic influence is not necessarily attrition

Ianthi Maria Tsimpli | University of Cambridge

Published online: 1 February 2018

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.00021.tsi

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