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Epistemological issue with keynote article “Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment” by Ewa Dabrowska
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:3] 2012
► pp. 255–259
Commentary

Three perspectives on non-uniform linguistic attainment

| University of Texas at Austin
Article outline
  • The context: Present, past, and present
  • Coming clean
  • What variation in native-speaker outcome means for L2A research
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 7 September 2012
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.3.02bir
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