Syntactic anomaly elicits a lexico-semantic (N400) ERP effect in the second language but not the first

Psychophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 920-925

  Weber, Kirsten ^a   Lavric, Aureliu ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; ERP; N400; Syntactic violations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54049131406     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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