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Peer reviewedNation, Robert; McLaughlin, Barry – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
The performance of multilingual subjects was contrasted to that of bilingual and monolingual subjects on two tasks that involved learning a miniature linguistic system. Results indicate that multilingual subjects have strategies that help them allocate processing resources more efficiently in formulating informal rules of limited scope under…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)
