Inhibitory processes in bilingual language comprehension: Evidence from Spanish-English interlexical homographs

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 232-244

  Macizo, Pedro ^a   Bajo, Teresa ^a   Cruz Martín, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingual language selection; Inhibitory processes; Interlexical homographs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954217052     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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