Word Recognition in the Bilingual Brain

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 449-471

  Dijkstra, Ton ^a   Van Heuven, Walter J B ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual brain, and word recognition; Bilingual lexicon, across languages; Bilingual word recognition; Brain oriented studies; Language exposure; Lexical processing system; Li and Farkas's SOMBIP model; Multilingual brain; Task decision system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886340906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118432501.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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