The influence of semantic constraints on bilingual word recognition during sentence reading

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-107

  Van Assche, Eva ^a   Drieghe, Denis ^a,b   Duyck, Wouter ^a   Welvaert, Marijke ^a   Hartsuiker, Robert J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognate effect; Reading; Semantic constraint; Sentence processing; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349311851     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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