Grammatical processing of spoken language in child and adult language learners

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 305-319

  Felser, Claudia ^a   Clahsen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross modal priming; English; Event related potentials; Filler gap dependencies; German; Morphological processing; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; CHILD; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCULOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349084191     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-009-9104-8     Document Type: Article

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