Commentary published In: Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly
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[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1] 2024
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Commentary
The power paradox in bilingualism
Weighing what we gain and what we lose by espousing and eschewing hypotheses
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