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. 89–93
Commentary
Which features are at the syntax–pragmatics interface?
Published online: 16 March 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.1.1.14sla
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.1.1.14sla
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