The measure matters: Language dominance profiles across measures in Spanish-English bilingual children

Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 616-629

  Bedore, Lisa M ^a   Peña, Elizabeth D ^a   Summers, Connie L ^a   Boerger, Karin M ^a   Resendiz, Maria D ^a   Greene, Kai ^a   Bohman, Thomas M ^b   Gillam, Ronald B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

age of acquisition; dominance; language ability; language proficiency; semantics; syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861843063     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000090     Document Type: Article

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