Lexical activation in bilinguals' speech production is dynamic: How language ambiguous words can affect cross-language activation

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1687-1709

  Hermans, Daan ^a   Ormel, E ^b   van Besselaar, Ria ^b   van Hell, Janet ^b,c  

^a ROYAL DUTCH KENTALIS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cross language activation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84858035405     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.530411     Document Type: Article

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