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Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll
Edited by Lindsay Hracs
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 69] 2024
► pp. 1–14

Chapter 1
Introduction

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Article outline
  • 1.Preliminary perspectives
  • 2.An overview of the volume
    • Section 1.Theory in language acquisition research
    • Section 2.Gender in bilingual and heritage language acquisition
    • Section 3.Input and exposure in the classroom
    • Section 4.Evidence in controlled first exposure language learning
    • Section 5.Input and evidence in the acquisition of syntactic structure
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
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