The plausibility of wholesale vs. property-by-property transfer in L3 acquisition

Westergaard, Marit

doi:10.1075/lab.20091.wes

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. 103–108

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The plausibility of wholesale vs. property-by-property transfer in L3 acquisition

Marit Westergaard | UiT The Arctic University of Norway | NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Published online: 1 March 2021

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20091.wes

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