The "tree-pruning hypothesis" in bilingualism

Aphasiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6-8, 2007, Pages 548-557

  Tissen, Andrea ^a   Weber, Sandra ^a   Grande, Marion ^b   Günther, Thomas ^a,b  

^a ZUYD UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CASE REPORT; GERMANY; GRAMMAR; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LUXEMBOURG; MALE; PREDICTION; SPEECH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34548580702     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030701191952     Document Type: Article

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