Temporal reference marking in narrative and expository text written by deaf children and adults: A bimodal bilingual perspective

Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 128-144

  Van Beijsterveldt, Liesbeth M ^a   Van Hell, Janet G ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bimodal bilingualism; tense; text writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955174724     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728910000465     Document Type: Article

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