Contributions to the functional neuroanatomy of morphosyntactic processing in L2

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 231-259

  De Diego Balaguer, Ruth ^a,b   Rodriguez Fornells, Antoni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Morphology; Morphosyntax; Neuroanatomy; Psycholinguistic models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950181587     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00557.x     Document Type: Review

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