Category-generation performance of bilingual children: The influence of condition, category, and language

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 938-947

  Peña, Elizabeth D ^a   Bedore, Lisa M ^a   Zlatic Giunta, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Culture; Semantic organization; Spanish English; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPAIN;

EID: 0036789402     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2002/076)     Document Type: Article

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