Lexical development in Mandarin-English bilingual children

Bilingualism

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 579-587

  Sheng, Li ^a   Lu, Ying ^a   Kan, Pui Fong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

English; Mandarin; modality; vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044814519     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728910000647     Document Type: Article

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