Learning the lexical aspects of a second language at different proficiencies: A neural computational study

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 266-287

  Cuppini, Cristiano ^a   Magosso, Elisa ^a   Ursino, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

bilingualism; inhibitory mechanisms; lexical semantic link; neural network modelling; object representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874847338     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728911000617     Document Type: Article

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