Influence of linguistic environment on children's language development: Flemish versus Dutch children

Deafness and Education International

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 226-243

  Wiefferink, C H ^a   Spaai, G W G ^a   Uilenburg, N ^a   Vermeij, B A M ^a   De Raeve, L ^b,c  

^a Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child   (Netherlands)

^b Royal Institute for the Deaf   (Belgium)

^c Independent Information Centre on Cochlear Implants   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Children; Cochlear implant; Language development; Monolingual

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349103986     PISSN: 14643154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dei.248     Document Type: Article

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