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Commentary published In:
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3] 2013
► pp. 345–349
Commentary

On the relationship between syntactic competence and language processing

| University of Connecticut
Published online: 16 September 2013
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.3.3.13sny
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