Proficiency level and the interaction of lexical and morphosyntactic information during L2 sentence processing

Language Learning

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 875-909

  Jackson, Carrie ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case markings; German; Lexical processing; Second language; Self paced reading; Syntactic processing; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649101958     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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