Commentary published In:
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3] 2013
► pp. 357–361
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3] 2013
► pp. 357–361
Commentary
Testing the Amelioration Hypothesis
Does the illusion hold for other scope phenomena?
Article outline
- Scope preferences and scrambling
- Scrambling in L1 Dutch
- Scrambling in L2 Dutch
- Summary
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