Referential cohesion in the narratives of bilingual English-Italian children and monolingual peers

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1058-1087

  Serratrice, Ludovica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual; English; Italian; Narrative; Text cohesion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247610924     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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