When language switching has no apparent cost: Lexical access in sentence context

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Gullifer, Jason W ^a   Kroll, Judith F ^a   Dussias, Paola E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognates; Language switching; Lexical access; Sentence context; Switch costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878951741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00278     Document Type: Article

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