A bilingual advantage in controlling language interference during sentence comprehension

Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 858-872

  Filippi, Roberto ^a   Leech, Robert ^b   Thomas, Michael S C ^c   Green, David W ^d   Dick, Frederic ^c  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bilingualism; control of interference; executive function; inhibition; sentence interpretation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866133079     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728911000708     Document Type: Article

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