The Role of Merger Theory and Formal Features in Acquisition

Roeper, Thomas

doi:10.1075/lald.14.16roe

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. 415–450

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The Role of Merger Theory and Formal Features in Acquisition

Thomas Roeper

Published online: 18 July 1996

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.14.16roe

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