The consequences of language proficiency and difficulty of lexical access for translation performance and priming

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 27-40

  Francis, Wendy S ^a   Tokowicz, Natasha ^b   Kroll, Judith F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Lexical processing; Repetition priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLICATION; REPETITION PRIMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REPETITION PRIMING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSLATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893566616     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0338-1     Document Type: Article

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