Introduction to Special Issue: Language-specific influences on acquisition and cognition

First Language

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-17

  Gathercole, Virginia C Mueller ^a,b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilinguals; Crosslinguistic language development; Crosslinguistic research; Input effects; Language and cognition; Language processing; Language universals; Timing of development

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249163317     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723706060738     Document Type: Editorial

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