The influence of initial exposure on lexical representation: Comparing early and simultaneous bilinguals

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 240-255

  Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^a   Echeverría, Sagrario ^a   Bosch, Laura ^a  

^a HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Catalan; Early exposure; Lexicon; Sensitive period; Spanish; Speech perception; Vowel perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 13644279848     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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