Although variation in the ways individuals process language has long been a topic of
interest and discussion in the psycholinguistic literature, only recently have studies of …

(1) How is the bilingual's vocabulary knowledge of his or her two languages represented in
memory?(2) What exactly happens within the bilingual's mental lexicon from the moment an …

Bilingual first language learners face unique challenges that may influence the rate and
order of early word learning relative to monolinguals. A comparison of the productive …

We report five experiments using the picture-word task to examine lexical selection by
comparing the effects of translation distractors in bilinguals and synonym distractors in …

This chapter is concerned with how people process words in their nonnative language.
Major hypotheses about lexical representation in bilingual speakers are briefly reviewed …

In this paper we review recent research on experimental psycholinguistic approaches to the
bilingual lexicon. The focus in this work is to understand how it is that lexical access in both …

English-Spanish bilinguals named visually presented words aloud in each language. The
words included cognates (eg, fruit-fruta) and non-cognate translations (eg, pencil-ládpiz) …

The authors report 4 experiments exploring the language-switching performance of highly
proficient bilinguals in a picture-naming task. In Experiment 1, they tested the impact of …

Brysbaert and Duyck (this issue) suggest that it is time to abandon the Revised Hierarchical
Model (Kroll and Stewart, 1994) in favor of connectionist models such as BIA+ (Dijkstra and …

Two experiments were implemented to examine the proposition that transfer effects between
English and Italian translations are restricted to words from the same lexical paradigm. The …