Commentary
Better together
The promise of the PTH as a complementary hypothesis
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Learnability predictions for L2 acquisition
- 3.Role of L1 analyses
- 4.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Note
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