Investigating word class effects in first and second languages

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-97

  Furtner, Marco R ^a   Rauthmann, John F ^a   Sachse, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053604338     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 1558688X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/04.11.28.PMS.113.4.87-97     Document Type: Article

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