Chinese-English bilinguals' sensitivity to the temporal phase of an action event is related to the extent of their experience with English

Language and Bilingual Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 341-356

  Chen, Jenn Yeu ^a   Su, Jui Ju ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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