Does reading in shallow L1 orthography slow attrition of language-specific morphological structures

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 24, Issue 4-5, 2010, Pages 401-415

  Zaretsky, Elena ^a   Bar Shalom, Eva G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition; Heritage speakers; Morphosyntactic structures; Reading ability; Russian English bilinguals

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; READING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950215225     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699200903532532     Document Type: Article

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