Bilingualism accentuates children's conversational understanding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Siegal, Michael ^a,b   Surian, Luca ^c   Matsuo, Ayumi ^a   Geraci, Alessandra ^c   Iozzi, Laura ^b   Okumura, Yuko ^d   Itakura, Shoji ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FAMILY; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ITALY; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL TRIAL; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77949383690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009004     Document Type: Article

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