Bilingualism and lexical representation

K Kirsner, HL Brown, S Abrol, NK Chadha… - The Quarterly journal …, 1980 - Taylor & Francis
Forty-eight Hindi-English bilinguals completed two blocks of trials where each trial involved
presentation of a letter string requiring a lexical decision. In the first block subjects were …

Shared and separate systems in bilingual language processing: Converging evidence from eyetracking and brain imaging

V Marian, M Spivey, J Hirsch - Brain and language, 2003 - Elsevier
The neurological and cognitive aspects of bilingual language processing were examined in
late Russian–English bilinguals using headband-mounted eyetracking and functional …

Visual word recognition in a second language: A test of the lexical entrenchment hypothesis with lexical decision times

M Brysbaert, E Lagrou, M Stevens - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The word frequency effect is stronger in second language (L2) processing than in first
language (L1) processing. According to the lexical entrenchment hypothesis, this difference …

Understanding the consequences of bilingualism for language processing and cognition

JF Kroll, E Bialystok - Journal of cognitive psychology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Contemporary research on bilingualism has been framed by two major discoveries. In the
realm of language processing, studies of comprehension and production show that …

Juggling two languages in one mind: What bilinguals tell us about language processing and its consequences for cognition

JF Kroll, PE Dussias, CA Bogulski, JRV Kroff - Psychology of learning and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Psycholinguistics has traditionally focused on language processing in monolingual
speakers. In the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase of research on …

Cumulative semantic interference is blind to language: Implications for models of bilingual speech production

E Runnqvist, K Strijkers, FX Alario, A Costa - Journal of Memory and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Several studies have shown that concepts spread activation to words of both of a bilingual's
languages. Therefore, a central issue that needs to be clarified is how a bilingual manages …

Interlingual homograph interference in German–English bilinguals: Its modulation and locus of control

RE Von Studnitz, DW Green - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2002 - cambridge.org
We used a visual lexical decision task to explore control processes in proficient German–
English bilinguals. Participants pressed a “yes” button if the letter string was a word in …

Lexical selection in bilingual speech production does not involve language suppression.

M Finkbeiner, J Almeida, N Janssen… - Journal of …, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
The" hard problem" in bilingual lexical access arises when translation-equivalent lexical
representations are activated to roughly equal levels and, thus, compete equally for lexical …

Executive control modulates cross-language lexical activation during L2 reading: evidence from eye movements.

I Pivneva, J Mercier, D Titone - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Models of bilingual reading such as Bilingual Interactive Activation Plus (Dijkstra &
van Heuven, 2002) do not predict a central role for domain-general executive control during …

Referring expressions and executive functions in bilingualism

A Sorace - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2016 - jbe-platform.com
Recent research has shown that the bilingual experience has positive effects on non-
linguistic cognition (;) but also negative effects on language, for example on vocabulary size …