Second language acquisition of gender agreement in explicit and implicit training conditions: An event-related potential study

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 154-193

  Morgan Short, Kara ^a   Sanz, Cristina ^b   Steinhauer, Karsten ^b   Ullman, Michael T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agreement; Event related potentials; Explicit; Implicit; Language processing; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950186217     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00554.x     Document Type: Article

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