The representation of lexical and syntactic information in bilinguals: Evidence from syntactic priming

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-171

  Schoonbaert, Sofie ^a   Hartsuiker, Robert J ^a   Pickering, Martin J ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Sentence production; Speech production; Syntactic priming; Verb

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846277606     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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