Getting it right by getting it wrong: when learners change languages.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Cognitive Psychology

• Publication date

  2009-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2009.01.001PMID 19324332PMCID PMC2703698
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