Tracking tip-of-the-tongue states in a multilingual speaker: Evidence of attrition or instability in lexical systems?

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 734-751

  Ecke, Peter ^a   Hall, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attrition; Dynamic Model of Multilingualism; lexical retrieval; multilingual speaker; Tip of the tongue

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888245236     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006912454623     Document Type: Article

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