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Cross-modal priming in bilingual sentence processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

THEODOROS MARINIS
THEODOROS MARINIS*
Affiliation:
University of Reading
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Address for correspondence: Theodoros Marinis, School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AL, UK[email protected]
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Abstract

This paper provides a concise overview of the cross-modal priming methodology, it presents a selection of key studies to illustrate how this method can be used to address lexical and syntactic processing and discusses advantages and disadvantages, along with issues that need to be taken into consideration when designing studies that address sentence processing in bilinguals.

Keywords

cross-modal priminglexical processinggrammatical processinglexical access
Type
Review Article
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 456 - 461
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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