Morphological processing in early bilinguals: An ERP study of regular and irregular verb processing

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 312-327

  De Diego Balaguer, R ^a,b   Sebastian Galles N ^c,d   Diaz B ^c,d   Rodriguez Fornells A ^d,e  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c Sant Joan de Deu Children's Hospital   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Event related potential; Morphology; N400; Priming; Spanish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 24644496097     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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