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. 48–52
Commentary
Feature Reassembly is concerned with syntax, but its main goal is to account for the (second) language acquisition process
Published online: 1 February 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.23059.dom
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.23059.dom
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