Phonological awareness skills in the two languages of MandarinEnglish bilingual children

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 24, Issue 4-5, 2010, Pages 387-400

  Marinova Todd, Stefka H ^a   Zhao, Jing ^a   Bernhardt, May ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Child speech; Mandarin; Phonological awareness

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS;

EID: 77950240575     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699200903532508     Document Type: Article

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