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. 30–36
Commentary
Vindicating the need for a principled theory of language acquisition
Published online: 1 March 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20095.fer
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20095.fer
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