The Interpretation of Overt and Null Pronouns in Non-native Spanish*
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* Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the University of Cambridge Looking at Language Acquisition II Workshop (May 2001), Fourth Durham Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (June 2001) and Eurosla 11 (September 2001). I would like to thank the audiences for their insightful comments. My gratitude also goes to Roger Hawkins for his advice, to all the Spanish teachers and institutions in Athens who voluntarily helped during the fieldwork, to a DWPL anonymous reviewer for their comments and to Ms Castillo for her help. This research was partially funded by the ESRC, award no. R00429934281. Fieldwork expenses were partially funded by the award University of Essex Bloomfield Memorial Travel Grant. Abstract
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