Explaining the acquisition and non-acquisition of determiner-noun gender concord in French and Spanish

Hawkins, Roger; Franceschina, Florencia

doi:10.1075/lald.32.10haw

In:The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories
Edited by Philippe Prévost and Johanne Paradis
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 32] 2004
► pp. 175–205

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Explaining the acquisition and non-acquisition of determiner-noun gender concord in French and Spanish

Roger Hawkins

Florencia Franceschina

Published online: 26 February 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.32.10haw

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