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Shrinking structures in heritage languages: Triggered by reduced quantity of input?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2019

Jürgen M. Meisel*
Affiliation:
University of Hamburg & University of Calgary
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Address for correspondence: Jürgen M. Meisel, Email: jmm@uni-hamburg.de

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