The Influence of Language Exposure on Lexical and Syntactic Language Processing

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 204-216

  Love, Tracy ^a   Maas, Edwin ^a,b   Swinney, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; On line; Psycholinguistics; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0042351179     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026//1617-3169.50.3.204     Document Type: Article

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