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MULTIMODAL INPUT IN SLA RESEARCH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2020

Maribel Montero Perez*
Affiliation:
KU Leuven
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*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Maribel Montero Perez, KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics and ITEC, imec Research Group at KU Leuven, Etienne Sabbelaan 51, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium. E-mail: maribel.monteroperez@kuleuven.be

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Critical Commentary
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Footnotes

I would like to thank the guest editors of this special issue, Carmen Muñoz and Elke Peters, for giving me the opportunity to write this commentary.

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