Action naming in Spanish and English by sequential bilingual children and adolescents

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 588-602

  Jia, Gisela ^a   Kohnert, Kathryn ^b   Collado, Julissa ^a   Aquino Garcia, Francia ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual assessment; Bilingualism; English as a second language; Spanish; Vocabulary assessment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; RESPONSE TIME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34248715218     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2006/042)     Document Type: Article

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