Accessing word meaning in two languages: An event-related brain potential study of beginning bilinguals

Brain and Language

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 290-304

  Alvarez, Ruben P ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^b   Grainger, Jonathan ^c  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0142216416     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00108-1     Document Type: Article

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