Comparing levels of processability across languages

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 128-146

  Pienemann, Manfred ^a   Keßler, Jörg U ^b   Itani Adams, Yuki ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LUDWIGSBURG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bilingual language development; cross linguistic metric; developmental perspective; levels of processability; Processability Theory; psycholinguistic metric

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958020602     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006910380037     Document Type: Article

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