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Null subjects and null objects in monolingual and bilingual children: a commentary

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From the journal Probus

Acknowledgments

Special thanks go to Pedro Guijarro Fuentes who read an earlier version of this paper.

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Note

The present paper is a commentary of the articles in the special issue. It takes the main results of the four papers and discusses them against other recent research in multilingual contexts.


Published Online: 2016-08-12
Published in Print: 2019-09-25

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