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Balanced Frequency Among Rivals in Child Spanish Morphology: A Corpus-based Study Of One Child

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|Sep 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.58734/plc-2025-0014 | Journal eISSN: 2083-8506 | Journal ISSN: 1234-2238
Language: English
Page range: 302 - 320
Published on: Sep 4, 2025
Published by: University of Warsaw
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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