On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French

Hamann, Cornelia; Rizzi, Luigi; Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans

doi:10.1075/lald.14.13ham

In:Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons
Edited by Harald Clahsen
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 14] 1996
► pp. 309–334

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On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French

Cornelia Hamann

Luigi Rizzi

Ulrich Hans Frauenfelder

Published online: 18 July 1996

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.14.13ham

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