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INTRODUCTION

The Linguistic Competence of Heritage Speakers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2011

Silvina Montrul
Silvina Montrul*
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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*Address correspondence to: Silvina Montrul, Department of Linguistics and Department of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4080 Foreign Languages Building, MC-176, 707 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801; e-mail: montrul@uiuc.edu.
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 33 , Special Issue 2: The Linguistic Competence of Heritage Speakers , June 2011 , pp. 155 - 161
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