Effects of early bilingualism on learning phonological regularities in a new language

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 455-467

  Kuo, Li Jen ^a   Anderson, Richard C ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Bilingualism; Language; Mandarin; Phonotactics; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS;

EID: 84855427584     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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