Better early or late? Examining the influence of age of exposure and language proficiency on executive function in early and late bilinguals

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 699-713

  Kalia, Vrinda ^a   Wilbourn, Makeba Parramore ^b   Ghio, Kathleen ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early bilinguals; Executive function; Language development; Late bilinguals

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; AUDITORILY CUED NUMBER NUMERAL TASK; BILINGUALISM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; AGE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPREHENSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY; LEARNING; SELF CONCEPT; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926139813     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2014.956748     Document Type: Article

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