Commentary published In: Epistemological issue with keynote article “Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism” by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:3] 2014
► pp. 357–362
Commentary
On timing in monolingual and bilingual acquisition
Grammatical properties interacting with age of onset and input
Published online: 8 August 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.4.3.10mei
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.4.3.10mei
Article outline
- Factors determining developmental patterns in the acquisition of grammars
- Grammatical explanations of developmental schedules
- Timing of (very) early phenomena and its effects on bilingual acquisition
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