Commentary published In: Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1] 2021
► pp. 45–49
Commentary
The Parasitic Model
Lexical acquisition and its impact on morphosyntactic transfer
Published online: 1 March 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20088.eck
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20088.eck
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