• Heritage and adult L2 acquisition of empty categories in a bidialectal-bilingual context 

      Castro, Tammer (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2016-11-24)
      Despite their high degree of mutual intelligibility, Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP) and European Portuguese (henceforth EP) have been argued to differ in many micro-parametric domains, which suggests that speakers with enough exposure to both varieties could potentially acquire them as separate mental systems. The present study makes use of this language pairing to investigate issues raised ...