Bilingual performance on nonword repetition in Spanish and English

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 480-493

  Summers, Connie ^a   Bohman, Thomas M ^a   Gillam, Ronald B ^b   Pena, Elizabeth D ^a   Bedore, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingual; nonword repetition; spanish

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; IMITATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SPEECH;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL RECALL; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 77953941295     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13682820903198058     Document Type: Article

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