Is multilingualism linked to a higher tolerance of ambiguity?

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 231-240

  Dewaele, Jean Marc ^a   Wei, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

individual variation; multicompetence; multilingualism; personality; Tolerance of Ambiguity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870857227     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000570     Document Type: Article

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