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In a series of picture–word interference experiments, Catalan–Spanish bilinguals named pictures in Catalan with distractor words printed either in Catalan (same-language pairs) or in Spanish (different-language pairs). Naming was facilitated when the distractor was the name of the picture in both same- [e.g., taula–taula (table in Catalan)] and different-language pairs [e.g., taula–mesa (table in Spanish)]. We also found that the facilitation effect was larger for same-language pairs and that semantically related distractors in the same- vs different-language conditions were similarly interfering. These results are interpreted within a lexical model that assumes that only words of the target language are considered for lexical selection and can, therefore, compete for selection. Converging evidence from several experiments indicates that the facilitation asymmetry for same name distractors arises because same-language …