The study investigated the effects of the compound-coordinate distinction on bilingual memory storage. Two groups of bilinguals, corresponding to the two language systems, served in four Brown-Peterson short-term memory conditions: Category change, Language change, Language and Category change, and Control. No differences between the two types of bilinguals were found.
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