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Epistemological issue with keynote article “Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment” by Ewa Dabrowska
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:3] 2012
► pp. 304–307
Commentary

We need an integrated, multiple-predictor model of native language proficiency

| College of Staten Island, The City University of New York
Article outline
  • Theory: The ‘third variable’ problem
  • Methodology: Accuracy measures and statistical modeling
  • References
Published online: 7 September 2012
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.3.12sek
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