Beginning adult L2 learners' sensitivity to morphosyntactic violations: A self-paced reading study

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1092-1106

  Tokowicz, Natasha ^a   Warren, Tessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition Model; Grammaticality judgements; L2 learning; Morphosyntactic violations; Selfpaced reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 77957906112     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440903325178     Document Type: Article

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