A bilingual-monolingual comparison of young children's vocabulary size: Evidence from comprehension and production

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1189-1211

  De Houwer, Annick ^a   Bornstein, Marc H ^b   Putnick, Diane L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^b Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development   (Germany)

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EID: 84914101296     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716412000744     Document Type: Article

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