Commentary published In:
Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature ReassemblyEdited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1] 2024
► pp. 74–78
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1] 2024
► pp. 74–78
Commentary
Transfer and learnability
Still a ‘primary’ consideration in L2 acquisition research
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