When is a First Language More Emotional? Psychophysiological Evidence from Bilingual Speakers

Bilingual Minds: Emotional Experience, Expression, and Representation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 257-283

  Harris, Catherine L ^a   Gleason, Jean Berko ^a   Ayçiçeği, Ayşe ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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