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Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6] 2018
► pp. 758–763
Commentary

Grammar acquisition and grammar choice in the variationist model

| University of Massachusetts Amherst
Article outline
  • 1.Pro-drop: Missing subjects and missing objects
  • 2.Articles and semantic/pragmatic variation
  • 3.Tense and semantic variation
  • 4.V2
  • References
Published online: 26 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18087.roe
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