Delayed acquisition of irregular inflectional morphology in Hebrew in early sequential bilingualism

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 501-522

  Schwartz, Mila ^a   Kozminsky, Ely ^b   Leikin, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bilinguals' l2 acquisition; Irregular noun plurals; Multi interval study

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951264504     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006909353238     Document Type: Article

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