Who is the Interface Hypothesis about?

Lardiere, Donna

doi:10.1075/lab.1.1.05lar

Commentary published In: Epistemological issue with keynote article “Pinning down of “interface” in bilingualism” by Antonella Sorace
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1:1] 2011
► pp. 48–53

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Who is the Interface Hypothesis about?

Donna Lardiere | Georgetown University

Published online: 16 March 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.1.1.05lar

Article outline

1.Introduction
2.Morphological variability in the L2 end state
- 2.1Detection of ungrammatical case marking in L2 German (Hopp 2007, 2009)
- 2.2Morphological licensing of variable expressions in L2 Chinese (Yuan 2010)
3.The IH and ultimate attainment
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