Degree of conversational code-switching enhances verbal task switching in Cantonese English bilinguals

Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 873-883

  Yim, Odilia ^a   Bialystok, Ellen ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

bilingualism; code switching; executive control; individual differences; task switching; verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866066518     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000478     Document Type: Article

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