Chapter published in:
Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition
Edited by Ana Lúcia Santos and Anabela Gonçalves
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 17] 2018
► pp. 393–414

Comments on the acquisition of complementation in Portuguese

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Published online: 16 August 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.17.13hya
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