Translation performance of beginning, intermediate and proficient spanish-catalan bilinguals: Effects of form and semantic relations

Mental Lexicon

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 289-308

  Guasch, Marc ^a,b   Sánchez Casas, Rosa ^a   Ferré, Pilar ^a   García Albea, José E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b Departament de Psicologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingual memory; Form similarity; Interference effect; Level of proficiency; Revised Hierarchical Model; Second language acquisition; Semantic similarity; Translation recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950717263     PISSN: 18711340     EISSN: 18711375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ml.3.3.03gua     Document Type: Article

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