Native and L2 processing of homonyms in sentential context

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 256-283

  Elston Gúttler, Kerrie E ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related brain potentials; Homonyms; Lexical decision; Second language processing; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 13644275508     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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