Corplum is a core from a plum: The advantage of bilingual children in the analysis of word meaning from verbal context

Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 117-127

  Marinova Todd, Stefka H ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingual; English; French; verbal context; word meaning

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955174730     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136672891000043X     Document Type: Article

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