Neural plasticity in speech acquisition and learning

Bilingualism

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-160

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Wang, Yue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 34447258913     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728907002908     Document Type: Review

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