Bilingual advantage and language switch: What's the linkage?

Bilingualism

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 80-97

  Scaltritti, Michele ^a   Peressotti, Francesca ^a   Miozzo, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingualism; dialect; executive control; language switch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940055761     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728915000565     Document Type: Article

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