Bimodal bilinguals reveal the source of tip-of-the-tongue states

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 323-329

  Pyers, Jennie E ^a   Gollan, Tamar H ^b   Emmorey, Karen ^c  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Bimodal bilingualism; Frequency of use; Language production; Sign language; Tip of the tongue

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; TONGUE;

ADULT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPAIN;

EID: 67649306209     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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