Age-of-acquisition effects in native speakers and second-language learners

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1218-1228

  Assink, Egbert M H ^a,b   Van Well, Sonja ^a   Knuijt, Paul P N A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NETHERLANDS; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; STUDENT;

EID: 1442277023     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195805     Document Type: Article

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