Lexical organization and competition in first and second languages: Computational and neural mechanisms

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 629-664

  Li, Ping ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual representation; DevLex; Dynamic self organization; Language acquisition; Lexical development; Neural representation of lexicon

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249120446     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01028.x     Document Type: Article

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