Perceptual foundations of bilingual acquisition in infancy

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1251, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-61

  Werker, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Infancy; Language acquisition; Perceptual foundations; Review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; COGNITION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PHONEME; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84859322521     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06484.x     Document Type: Article

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