First translation equivalents in bilingual toddlers' expressive vocabulary: Does form similarity matter?

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 317-322

  Bosch, Laura ^a   Ramon Casas, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

bilinguals; expressive vocabulary; first lexicon; phonological similarity; translation equivalents

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; CHILD; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; TODDLER; VOWEL;

EID: 84901947467     PISSN: 01650254     EISSN: 14640651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165025414532559     Document Type: Article

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