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. 37–42
Commentary
Modelling multilingual ecologies beyond the L1-L2 Binary
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Published online: 1 February 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.23063.abo
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.23063.abo
Article outline
- Introduction
- Exoskeletal approaches in modelling mental grammars
- Exoskeletal approaches make the feature (Re)Assembly model superfluous
- Reconsidering assumptions in Lohndal and Putnam’s Approach: Toward a paradigm shift
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