Differences Between Young and Older Adults in Learning A Foreign Vocabulary

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 608-623

  Service, Elisabet ^a,b   Craik, Fergus I M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0000519278     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1993.1031     Document Type: Article

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