The impact of proficiency on syntactic second-language processing of German and Italian: Evidence from event-related potentials

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2030-2048

  Rossi, Sonja ^a   Gugler, Manfred F ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a   Hahne, Anja ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33845475616     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.2030     Document Type: Article

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