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Test sites and proving grounds

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Opportunistic proving grounds
    • 2.1Insights into a major typological issue: Palenquero clause-final negation
    • 2.2Can natively acquired mechanisms be “unlearned”?: Palenquero and gender agreement
    • 2.3Another Palenquero dividend: The nature of Spanish inflection
    • 2.4Complete reanalysis: L2 Palenquero over-extension of pluralizer ma
    • 2.5Code-switching within the same grammar: Kichwa-Media Lengua bilingualism
    • 2.6Minimal linguistic distance: Kichwa-Media Lengua redux
  • 3.In search of the envelope of variation: Beyond the interview
    • 3.1Overview of available resources
    • 3.2Rapid judgment with repetition
    • 3.3A potent tool: Concurrent memory-loaded repetition
    • 3.4Short-term memory to the limit: Close shadowing
    • 3.5From the keyboard: Sentence-matching
    • 3.6Pressing the issue: Two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC)
  • 4.Virtual creoles: Simulation models
  • 5.Bringing it (back) together
  • Author queries
  • References
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