Evaluating attributions of delay and confusion in young bilinguals: Special insights from infants acquiring a signed and a spoken language

Sign Language Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 4-33

  Petitto, Laura Ann ^a,b   Holowka, Siobhan ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory for Language and Child Development ^*

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 34248724484     PISSN: 03021475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sls.2002.0025     Document Type: Note

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