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Smaller vocabularies lead to morphological overregularization in heritage language grammars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2019

Silvina Montrul*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sara Ann Mason
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*
Address for correspondence: Silvina Montrul, E-mail: montrul@illinois.edu

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