The bilingual effect on Boston Naming Test performance
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Bilingual performance on the boston naming test: preliminary norms in Spanish and English.
A total of 100 young educated bilingual adults were administered the Boston Naming Test (BNT) (Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 1983) in both Spanish and English. Three group performance scores were obtained: English only, Spanish only, and a composite score indicating the total number of items correctly named independent of language. The scores for the entire group were significantly greater in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1355-6177,1469-7661
DOI: 10.1017/s1355617707070038