An fMRI study of level of proficiency as a predictor of neurocognitive convergence for L1/L2 during a lexicosemantic task in a paediatric population

Second Language Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-134

  Mondt, Katrien ^a   Balriaux, Danielle ^b   Metens, Thierry ^b   Paquier, Philippe ^a   Van De Craen, Piet ^a   Van Den Noort, Maurits ^a   Denolin, Vincent ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; convergence hypothesis; effects of L2 proficiency; fMRI in SLA; paediatric bilingual populations; verb generation in bilinguals

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649184910     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658308098998     Document Type: Article

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