Morphosyntactic processing in late second-language learners

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1870-1887

  Dowens, Margaret Gillon ^a,b   Vergara, Marta ^c   Barber, Horacio A ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^e UVP/EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955499423     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21304     Document Type: Article

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