Hesitation phenomena in the language production of bilingual speakers: The role of working memory

Folia Linguistica

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 37-72

  Fehringer, Carol ^a   Fry, Christina ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Hesitation; L2; Memory; Prefabricated utterance; Speech production; Working

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548251868     PISSN: 01654004     EISSN: 01654004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/flin.41.1-2.37     Document Type: Review

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