Native Language Influences on Word Recognition in a Second Language: A Megastudy

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-31

  Lemhöfer, Kristin ^a   Dijkstra, Ton ^a   Schriefers, Herbert ^a   Baayen, R Harald ^b   Grainger, Jonathan ^c,d   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

bilingualism; cross language influences; multiple regression; progressive demasking task; visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 38649097245     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.1.12     Document Type: Article

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