Translation ambiguity but not word class predicts translation performance

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 458-474

  Prior, Anat ^a   Kroll, Judith F ^b   MacWhinney, Brian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingual lexicon; translation ambiguity; word class

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874938242     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000272     Document Type: Article

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