The influence of lexical familiarity on ERP responses during sentence comprehension in language learners

Second Language Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-76

  Mueller, Jutta L ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

ERPs in SLA; L2 lexical processing; L2 sentence comprehension; micro language learning; N400 "P600 patterns in SLA

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649197069     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658308098996     Document Type: Article

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