Gender processing in first and second languages: The role of noun termination

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1090-1101

  Bordag, Denisa ^a   Opitz, Andreas ^a   Pechmann, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Grammatical gender processing; Phonological form

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33748437669     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.1090     Document Type: Article

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