Testing the interdependence hypothesis among native adult bilingual Russian-English students

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 437-455

  Abu Rabia, Salim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bilingual language skills; Deep orthography; Different orthographies; Interdependence hypothesis; Shallow orthography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM;

EID: 0035403370     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010425825251     Document Type: Article

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