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Commentary published In: Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3] 2013
► pp. 357–361

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Commentary

Testing the Amelioration Hypothesis

Does the illusion hold for other scope phenomena?

 | Utrecht University
Published online: 16 September 2013
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.3.3.15uns
Article outline
  • Scope preferences and scrambling
  • Scrambling in L1 Dutch
  • Scrambling in L2 Dutch
  • Summary
  • References
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