Long-term language attainment of bilingual immigrants: Predictive variables and language group differences

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 599-621

  Jia, Gisela ^c   Aaronson, Doris ^a   Wu, Yanhong ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 0036971916     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716402004058     Document Type: Article

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