Young monolingual and bilingual children's responses to violation of the Mutual Exclusivity Principle

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-146

  Frank, Ilana ^a,b   Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

bilingualism; Mutual Exclusivity; translation equivalents; word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996176019     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13670069020060020201     Document Type: Article

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