Learning foreign labels from a foreign speaker: The role of (limited) exposure to a second language

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1135-1149

  Akhtar, Nameera ^a   Menjivar, Jennifer ^a   Hoicka, Elena ^b   Sabbagh, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM;

EID: 84859506715     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000911000481     Document Type: Article

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