Crosslinguistic transfer in the acquisition of compound words in PersianEnglish bilinguals

Bilingualism

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 411-427

  Foroodi Nejad, Farzaneh ^a,b   Paradis, Johanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b 4 32 Assiniboia Hall ^*  (Canada)

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EID: 74049110150     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728909990241     Document Type: Article

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