How do highly proficient bilinguals control their lexicalization process? Inhibitory and language-specific selection mechanisms are both functional

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1057-1074

  Costa, Albert ^a   Santesteban, Mikel ^b   Ivanova, Iva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Highly proficient bilingualism; Language production; Language switching; Lexical access

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33748417285     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.1057     Document Type: Article

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