ERP evidence for different strategies employed by native speakers and L2 learners in sentence processing

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-134

  Guo, Jingjing ^a   Guo, Taomei ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Jiang, Nan ^b   Peng, Danling ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; L2 learners; Native speakers; Sentence processing; Strategy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 58149345779     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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