Lexical Competition During Second-Language Listening: Sentence Context, But Not Proficiency, Constrains Interference From the Native Lexicon

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1029-1040

  Chambers, Craig G ^a   Cooke, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

bilingualism; proficiency; sentence context; spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HEARING; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 67650736180     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015901     Document Type: Article

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