Age of acquisition effects in translation judgement tasks

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-181

  Izura, Christina ^a   Ellis, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Bilingualism; Translation; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342285046     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2003.09.004     Document Type: Article

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