Spanish-English L2 speakers' use of subcategorization bias information in the resolution of temporary ambiguity during second language reading

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 501-513

  Dussias, Paola E ^a   Cramer Scaltz, Tracy R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Psycholinguistics; Sentence comprehension; Syntactic ambiguity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; READING; SPAIN; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SPAIN; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47249093739     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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