Non-native phonemes in adult word learning: Evidence from the N400m

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1536, 2009, Pages 3697-3709

  Dobel, Christian ^a   Lagemann, Lothar ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetoencephalography; N400; Phoneme learning; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 73949141470     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0158     Document Type: Article

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