ERP evidence for different strategies in the processing of case markers in native speakers and non-native learners

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mueller, Jutta L ^a   Hirotani, Masako ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947354952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-18     Document Type: Article

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