Lexical learning in bilingual adults: The relative importance of short-term memory for serial order and phonological knowledge

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 395-419

  Majerus, Steve ^a,b   Poncelet, Martine ^a   Van der Linden, Martial ^a,c   Weekes, Brendan S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Lexical learning; Phonological knowledge; Serial order; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 41349111661     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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