Bilingual and monolingual children prefer native-accented speakers

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Souza, André L ^a   Byers Heinlein, Krista ^a   Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Children; Foreign accented speech; Social biases

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891681008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00953     Document Type: Article

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