The cognitive basis of diglossia in Arabic: Evidence from a repetition priming study within and between languages

Psychology Research and Behavior Management

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 93-105

  Ibrahim, Raphiq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Lexical organization; Literary Arabic; Repetition priming; Spoken Arabic; Translation equivalents

Indexed keywords

BILINGUALISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; REPETITION PRIMING;

EID: 85010773853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/PRBM.S5138     Document Type: Article

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