Assessing the role of current and cumulative exposure in simultaneous bilingual acquisition: The case of Dutch gender

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 86-110

  Unsworth, Sharon ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cumulative length of exposure; Dutch; exposure effects; grammatical gender; simultaneous bilingual acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870815253     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000284     Document Type: Article

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