Age of Acquisition Effects on Word Processing for Chinese Native Learners’ English: ERP Evidence for the Arbitrary Mapping Hypothesis

The present study aimed at distinguishing processing of early learned L2 words from late ones for Chinese natives who learn English as a foreign language. Specifically, we examined whether the age of acquisition (AoA) effect arose during the arbitrary mapping from conceptual knowledge onto linguisti...

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Main Authors: Jin Xue, Tongtong Liu, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Xuna Pei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
AoA
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00818/full