Effect of multiple translations and cognate status on translation recognition performance of balanced bilinguals

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 183-197

  Boada, Roger ^a   SáNCHEZ CASAS, Rosa ^a   GAVILáN, José M ^a   GARCíA ALBEA, José E ^a   Tokowicz, Natasha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

cognate status; multiple translations; translation ambiguity; translation recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870780530     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000223     Document Type: Article

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