How vocabulary size in two languages relates to efficiency in spoken word recognition by young Spanish-English bilinguals

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 817-840

  Marchman, Virginia A ^a   Fernald, Anne ^a   Hurtado, Nereyda ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78649954068     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000909990055     Document Type: Article

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