Effects of proficiency and age of language acquisition on working memory performance in bilinguals

Psihologija

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 219-232

  Vejnović, Dušan ^a   Milin, Petar ^a,b   Zdravković, Sunčica ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Bilingualism; Language proficiency; Reading span; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650407653     PISSN: 00485705     EISSN: 14519283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/PSI1003219V     Document Type: Article

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