Emerging bilingualism: Dissociating advantages for metalinguistic awareness and executive control

Cognition

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 67-73

  Bialystok, Ellen ^a   Barac, Raluca ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Development; Executive control; Metalinguistic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; LIFESPAN; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

EID: 81055156151     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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