The role of input in early bilingual lexical development

Lingue e Linguaggio

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-198

  Vulchanova, Mila ^a   Vulchanov, Valentin ^a   Sarzhanova, Dinara ^a   Eshuis, Hendrik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bilingual advantage; Bilingual lexicon; Exposure to input; Vocabulary size.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899688135     PISSN: 17209331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1418/38785     Document Type: Review

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