Production of tense marking in successive bilingual children: When do they converge with their monolingual peers?

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-28

  Marinis, Theodoros ^a   Chondrogianni, Vasiliki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Language impairment; Morphosyntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; PHONETICS; STANDARD; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED KINGDOM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ARTS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; TURKEY;

EID: 75149190380     PISSN: 17549515     EISSN: 17549507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17549500903434125     Document Type: Article

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