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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. 104–114
Response to the commentaries

Modeling multilingual grammars

Constraints and predictions

ORCID logo | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
ORCID logo | Pennsylvania State University | University of Greenwich (CREL)
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Models and first vs. second order constraints
  • 3.Mechanisms vs. processes
  • 4.Predictions
  • 5.The road ahead
  • Note
  • References
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Published online: 1 February 2024
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