Phonological short-term and working memory in bilinguals' native and second language

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1005-1037

  Kaushanskaya, Margarita ^a   Yoo, Jeewon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84884269767     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716412000100     Document Type: Article

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