Comparing behavioral discrimination and learning abilities in monolinguals, bilinguals and multilinguals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3465-3474

  Tremblay, Marie Claude ^a   Sabourin, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILINGUALS; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROL GROUPS; GROUP DIFFERENCES; LANGUAGE LEARNING; LEARNING ABILITIES; NON-NATIVE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869137305     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4756955     Document Type: Article

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