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Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1] 2024
► pp. 85–89
Commentary

The power paradox in bilingualism

Weighing what we gain and what we lose by espousing and eschewing hypotheses

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Published online: 1 February 2024
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