Commentary published In:
Epistemological issue with keynote article “Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism” by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:3] 2014
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[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:3] 2014
► pp. 321–324
Commentary
From the bird to the frog
A closer look at the acquisition of V2 in Dutch
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