Native-language recognition abilities in 4-month-old infants from monolingual and bilingual environments

Cognition

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-69

  Bosch, Laura ^a   Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Infants; Language recognition; Monolingual

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; REACTION TIME;

CHILD LANGUAGE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031304794     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(97)00040-1     Document Type: Article

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