Working memory influences on cross-language activation during bilingual lexical disambiguation

Bilingualism

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 360-370

  Arêas Da Luz Fontes, Ana B ^a   Schwartz, Ana I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingualism; cross language activation; lexical ambiguity; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958795178     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728910000374     Document Type: Article

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