Preserved implicit knowledge of a forgotten childhood language

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1064-1069

  Bowers, Jeffrey S ^a   Mattys, Sven L ^a   Gage, Suzanne H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 69549120471     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02407.x     Document Type: Article

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