On a different plane: Cross-language effects on the conceptual representations of within-language homonyms

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 508-532

  da Luz Fontes, Ana B Arêas ^a   Schwartz, Ana I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Conceptual representations; Homonyms; Lexical access

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPAIN; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77951655518     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960903285797     Document Type: Article

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