Bilingual Speech Processing in Infants and Adults

Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy through School Age

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-18

  Werker, Janet F ^a   Weikum, Whitney M ^b   Yoshida, Katherine A ^c  

^a UBC   (Canada)

^b Canadian Institutes of Health Research   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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