Within-rhythm class native language discrimination abilities of basque-Spanish monolingual and bilingual infants at 3.5 months of age

Infancy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 326-337

  Molnar, Monika ^a   Gervain, Judit ^b   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,c  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

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Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BILINGUALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84898848335     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12041     Document Type: Article

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