Predicting two mandarin-english bilingual children's first 50 words: Effects of frequency and relative exposure in the input

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-270

  Chan, Wai Han ^a   Nicoladis, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

first words; input; language choice; noun bias; salient position

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049472952     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006910363059     Document Type: Article

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