Early bilingualism influences early and subsequently later acquired languages in cortical regions representing control functions

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 48-66

  Wattendorf, Elise ^a,b   Festman, Julia ^c   Westermann, Birgit ^d   Keil, Ursula ^e   Zappatore, Daniela ^b   Franceschini, Rita ^f   Luedi, Georges ^b   Radue, Ernst Wilhelm ^g   Münte, Thomas F ^h   Rager, Günter ^a,b   Nitsch, Cordula ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d University Hospital   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^g PSI   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

age of acquisition; emergentist framework; functional magnetic resonance imaging; language acquisition; Multilingual; narration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892842175     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006912456590     Document Type: Article

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