Is the Chinese number-naming system transparent? Evidence from Chinese-English bilingual children

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 60-67

  Rasmussen, Carmen ^a   Ho, Elaine ^a   Nicoladis, Elena ^a   Leung, Joyce ^a   Bisanz, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALBERTA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MULTILINGUALISM; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 33646168725     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/cjep2006007     Document Type: Article

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