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Direct linkMontrul, Silvina – Second Language Research, 2005
This study compares the linguistic knowledge of adult second language (L2) learners, who learned the L2 after puberty, with the potentially "eroded" first language (L1) grammars of adult early bilinguals who were exposed to the target language since birth and learned the other language simultaneously, or early in childhood (before age 5). I make…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning
