Development of phonological awareness in bilingual Chinese children

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 405-418

  Chen, Xi ^a   Ku, Yu Min ^b   Koyama, Emiko ^a   Anderson, Richard C ^c   Li, Wenling ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d TRINITY EVANGELICAL DIVINITY SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Cantonese; Cross language transfer; Mandarin; Phonological awareness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CHILD; CHINA; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 56749169172     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-008-9085-z     Document Type: Article

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