How does linguistic competence enhance cognitive functions in children? A study in multilingual children with different linguistic competences

Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 884-895

  Videsott, Gerda ^a   Della Rosa, Pasquale Anthony ^b   Wiater, Werner ^c   Franceschini, Rita ^a   Abutalebi, Jubin ^d  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

alerting; Attentional Network Test (ANT); bilingualism; child development; multilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866129351     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000119     Document Type: Article

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