Psycholinguistic perspectives on second language learning and bilingualism the course and consequence of cross-language competition

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-24

  Kroll, Judith F ^a   Bogulski, Cari A ^a   McClain, Rhonda ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingualism; cognitive consequences of bilingualism; cross language interactions; language processing; psycholinguistics; second language learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969270832     PISSN: 18799264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lab.2.1.01kro     Document Type: Article

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