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Publication details [#60659]

Thierry, Guillaume and Eirini Sanoudaki. 2015. Language non-selective syntactic activation in early bilinguals: the role of verbal fluency. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 18 (5) : 548–560.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language proficiency | sentence, comprehension of | syntax1, comprehension of | verbal action

Language as a subject

English | Welsh

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study discloses that non-selective syntax in English sentence comprehension is restricted to bilinguals with more advanced Welsh verbal fluency. This result denotes for the first time directivity in early bilinguals' cross-language syntactic activation.