The bilingual advantage in novel word learning

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 705-710

  Kaushanskaya, Margarita ^a   Marian, Viorica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449431086     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.4.705     Document Type: Article

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