How native-like is non-native language processing?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 564-570

  Clahsen, Harald ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; LINGUISTICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

LINGUISTIC SUBDOMAINS; NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PSYCHOLINGUISTS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MATURATION; REVIEW; SPEECH;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33751413330     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.10.002     Document Type: Review

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