Acquisition of english grammatical morphology by native mandarin-speaking children and adolescents: Age-related differences

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1280-1299

  Jia, Gisela ^a   Fuse, Akiko ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; English language learners; Sequential bilingualism

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PREDICTION; SPEECH;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MULTILINGUALISM; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35848934800     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/090)     Document Type: Article

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