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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
► pp. 357–362
Commentary

On timing in monolingual and bilingual acquisition

Grammatical properties interacting with age of onset and input

| University of Hamburg & University of Calgary
Article outline
  • Factors determining developmental patterns in the acquisition of grammars
  • Grammatical explanations of developmental schedules
  • Timing of (very) early phenomena and its effects on bilingual acquisition
  • References
Published online: 8 August 2014
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