Morphological structure in native and nonnative language processing

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-43

  Clahsen, Harald ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a   Neubauer, Kathleen ^a   Sato, Mikako ^a   Silva, Renita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Derivation; English; Event related potentials; German; Inflection; Morphological processing; Morphosyntax; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950127283     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00550.x     Document Type: Article

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