The development of associative word learning in monolingual and bilingual infants

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 198-205

  Byers Heinlein, Krista ^a   Fennell, Christopher T ^b   Werker, Janet F ^c  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

bilingualism; infant development; language acquisition; word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870797837     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000417     Document Type: Article

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