Lexical attrition in younger and older bilingual adults

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 509-522

  Goral, Mira ^a,b,c   Libben, Gary ^d   Obler, Loraine K ^b,c   Jarema, Gonia ^e,f   Ohayon, Keren ^g  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Ageing; Bilingual; Compound words; Lexical attrition; Lexical decision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 45949103442     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200801912237     Document Type: Article

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