The storage and composition of inflected forms in adult-learned second language: A study of the influence of length of residence, age of arrival, sex, and other factors

Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 820-840

  Babcock, Laura ^a,b   Stowe, John C ^a   Maloof, Christopher J ^a   Brovetto, Claudia ^a,c   Ullman, Michael T ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c Universidaddela República UdelaR Responsabledela SecciónInformacióndelaBiblioteca   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

age of arrival (AoA); declarative memory; late learned second language (L2); length of residence (LoR); procedural memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866103345     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000053     Document Type: Article

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