Cross-language effects of grammatical gender in bilingual word recognition and production

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 312-330

  Lemhöfer, Kristin ^a   Spalek, Katharina ^a   Schriefers, Herbert ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bilingual word recognition and production; Cross language effects; Grammatical gender in L2; Lexical decision; Picture naming; Stability of L2 representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849135876     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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