Bilingual is as bilingual does: Metalinguistic abilities of Arabic-speaking children

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 451-471

  Eviatar, Zohar ^a   Ibrahim, Raphiq ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NONE

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EID: 0034554531     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716400004021     Document Type: Article

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