On the bilingual competence of Spanish heritage speakers: Syntax, lexical-semantics and processing

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-69

  Montrul, Silvina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingual competence; lexical semantics; processing; Spanish; syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750690793     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13670069060100010301     Document Type: Article

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