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Comparing anaphora resolution in early and late Brazilian Portuguese-European Portuguese bidialectal bilinguals

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Comparing anaphora resolution in early and late Brazilian Portuguese-European Portuguese bidialectal bilinguals. / Castro, Tammer; Rothman, Jason; Westergaard, Marit.
In: Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada, Vol. 29, No. 2, 30.01.2016, p. 429-461.

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Castro, T, Rothman, J & Westergaard, M 2016, 'Comparing anaphora resolution in early and late Brazilian Portuguese-European Portuguese bidialectal bilinguals', Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 429-461. https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.29.2.03cas

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Castro, T., Rothman, J., & Westergaard, M. (2016). Comparing anaphora resolution in early and late Brazilian Portuguese-European Portuguese bidialectal bilinguals. Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada, 29(2), 429-461. https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.29.2.03cas

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Castro T, Rothman J, Westergaard M. Comparing anaphora resolution in early and late Brazilian Portuguese-European Portuguese bidialectal bilinguals. Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada. 2016 Jan 30;29(2):429-461. doi: 10.1075/resla.29.2.03cas

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Castro, Tammer ; Rothman, Jason ; Westergaard, Marit. / Comparing anaphora resolution in early and late Brazilian Portuguese-European Portuguese bidialectal bilinguals. In: Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada. 2016 ; Vol. 29, No. 2. pp. 429-461.

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