When bilinguals choose a single word to speak: Electrophysiological evidence for inhibition of the native language

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 224-237

  Misra, Maya ^a   Guo, Taomei ^b   Bobb, Susan C ^a   Kroll, Judith F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Inhibition; Language production; Lexical selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862269234     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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