Language-level input factors are not enough to explain child bilingual acquisition

Paradis, Johanne

doi:10.1075/lab.18059.par

Commentary published In: Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6] 2018
► pp. 753–757

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Language-level input factors are not enough to explain child bilingual acquisition

Johanne Paradis | University of Alberta

Published online: 26 November 2018

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18059.par

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