A study of perceptual defense involving bilinguals

This experiment demonstrates the perceptual defense phenomenon in two languages by children who are bilingual in English and Tagalog. Recognition thresholds were determined for anxiety-provoking and neutral words which were matched for length and (in the case of English words) frequency of occurrenc...

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Published in:Philippine Journal of Psychology Vol. 3, No. 1 (June 1970), p. 3-17.
Main Author: Sollee, Natalie D. (Author)
Format: Analytics
Language:English
Published: 1970.