Vocabulary size, translation equivalents, and efficiency in word recognition in very young bilinguals

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 760-783

  Legacy, Jacqueline ^a   Zesiger, Pascal ^b   Friend, Margaret ^c   Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84930443883     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000915000252     Document Type: Article

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