Determining language dominance in English-Mandarin bilinguals: Development of a self-report classification tool for clinical use

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 389-412

  Lim, Valerie P C ^a,c   Liow, Susan J Rickard ^b   Lincoln, Michelle ^a   Chan, Yiong Huak ^b   Onslow, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

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EID: 44949128936     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716408080181     Document Type: Article

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