How cross-language similarity and task demands affect cognate recognition

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 284-301

  Dijkstra, Ton ^a   Miwa, Koji ^b   Brummelhuis, Bianca ^a   Sappelli, Maya ^a   Baayen, Harald ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingual word recognition; Cognate representation; Cross language similarity; Task demands

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949263095     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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