Lexical access and vocabulary development in very young bilinguals

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-70

  Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a   Bialystok, Ellen ^b   Blaye, Agnes ^c   Polonia, Alexandra ^a   Yott, Jessica ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

bilingualism; infancy; lexical access; lexicon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873970480     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006911431198     Document Type: Article

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