Can a horse be a donkey? Semantic and form interference effects in translation recognition in early and late proficient and nonproficient Spanish-Catalan bilinguals

Language Learning

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 571-608

  Ferré, Pilar ^a,b   Sánchez Casas, Rosa ^a,b   Guasch, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b Departamento de Psicología   (Spain)

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EID: 33750602631     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2006.00389.x     Document Type: Review

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