Second language processing: When are first and second languages processed similarly?

Second Language Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 397-430

  Sabourin, Laura ^a,b   Stowe, Laurie A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ERP; Grammatical gender; L1 interference; L1 transfer; L2 processing; P600

Indexed keywords

EID: 60249087456     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658308090186     Document Type: Article

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