Feeling affect in a second language: The role of word recognition automaticity

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-71

  Segalowitz, Norman ^a   Trofimovich, Pavel ^a   Gatbonton, Elizabeth ^a   Sokolovskaya, Anna ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

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EID: 57749127407     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.3.1.05seg     Document Type: Article

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