Silence is difficult: On missing elements in bilingual grammars
Near-native speakers (heritage speakers and adult second language learners alike) experience difficulty in interpreting and producing linguistic constructions that contain morphologically null elements. We dub this phenomenon the Silent Problem. The bulk of literature on the Silent Problem in near...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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De Gruyter
2017-06-01
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Series: | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2017-0007 |