Shared Syntactic Representations in Bilinguals: Evidence for the Role of Word-Order Repetition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 931-949

  Bernolet, Sarah ^a   Hartsuiker, Robert J ^a   Pickering, Martin J ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bilingualism; noun phrases; spoken sentence production; syntactic priming; word order

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; READING; RECALL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34548838825     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.5.931     Document Type: Article

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