Concreteness effects in bilingual and monolingual word learning

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 935-941

  Kaushanskaya, Margarita ^a   Rechtzigel, Katrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Human memory and learning; Phonology; Semantics; Word meaning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866746526     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0271-5     Document Type: Article

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