Advantages of bilinguals over monolinguals in learning a third language

Bilingual Research Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-199

  Abu Rabia, Salim ^a   Sanitsky, Ekaterina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 79952877072     PISSN: 15235882     EISSN: 15235890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15235882.2010.502797     Document Type: Article

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