A disadvantage in bilingual sentence production modulated by syntactic frequency and similarity across languages

Cognition

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 256-263

  Runnqvist, Elin ^a   Gollan, Tamar H ^b   Costa, Albert ^c,d   Ferreira, Victor S ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingual disadvantage; Cross language interactivity; Frequency effects; Sentence production

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

BILINGUAL DISADVANTAGE; CROSS-LANGUAGE INTERACTIVITY; FREQUENCY EFFECTS; SENTENCE PRODUCTION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882649423     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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