Grammatical gender inhibition in bilinguals

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Morales, Luis ^a   Paolieri, Daniela ^a   Bajo, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilinguals; Grammatical gender; Inhibition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867136646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00284     Document Type: Article

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