Five experiments were conducted to evaluate hypotheses concerning lexical organization in
bilinguals. Previous work has shown that the repetition effect in lexical decision is restricted …

In this chapter we compare the processing of English by Chinese-English bilinguals with that
of monolingual English speakers. We have selected Chinese-English bilinguals (whom we …

This volume contains a selection of papers analyzing language transfer, a phenomenon
which results from language contact in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition and …

Studies on bilingual word reading and translation have examined the effects of lexical
variables (eg, concreteness, cognate status) by comparing groups of non-translators with …

The mechanism by which Russian native speakers store and retrieve Russian and English
words from lexical memory was investigated in two experiments in which fluency of retrieval …

Bilingualism provides a unique opportunity for exploring hypotheses about how the human
brain encodes language. For example, the “input switch” theory states that bilinguals can …

A central issue in theories of bilingual language representation concerns the mapping of
form to meaning. Past research on this topic sought to determine whether word forms and …

In bilingual communities, individuals often communicate in one of their languages only, and
they adjust to the linguistic background of different interlocutors with ease. What facilitates …

In spite of the intuition of many bilinguals, a review of empirical studies indicates that during
reading under many circumstances, possible words from different languages temporarily …

The present study investigates the developmental aspect of the revised hierarchical model
(Kroll & Stewart, 1994) concerning the access to the conceptual store from the second …