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Commentary published In: Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1] 2024
► pp. 90–95

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Commentary

From the child’s perspective

ORCiD logo with link | Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Published online: 1 February 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.23054.mul
Article outline
  • Feature reassembly
  • Phonology after syntax
  • References
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