Cognitive effects of bilingualism: Digging deeper for the contributions of language dominance, linguistic knowledge, socio-economic status and cognitive abilities

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 617-664

  Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C ^a   Thomas, Enlli Môn ^a   Jones, Leah ^a   Guasch, Nestor Viñas ^a   Young, Nia ^a   Hughes, Emma K ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Executive function; Language balance; Language dominance; Stroop; Tapping; Welsh bilinguals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955760928     PISSN: 13670050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2010.488289     Document Type: Article

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