Effects of cognate status on word comprehension in second language learners: An ERP investigation

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1634-1647

  Midgley, Katherine J ^a,b   Holcomb, Phillip J ^a   Grainger, Jonathan ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79955820883     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21463     Document Type: Article

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