Grammatical gender processing in L2: Electrophysiological evidence of the effect of L1-L2 syntactic similarity

Bilingualism

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 379-399

  Foucart, Alice ^a   Frenck Mestre, Cheryl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

ERPs; grammatical gender; second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958864688     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136672891000012X     Document Type: Article

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