Many language pairs chosen in language switching studies differ randomly on multiple
linguistic levels, thus obscuring the nature of switching costs. Contact-induced languages …

Many bilinguals switch languages in daily-life conversations. Although this usually happens
within sentence context and with another speaker, most research on the cognitive …

Language switching involves multiple processing stages. Previous studies have not
dissociated the cognitive process underlying language form switches and concept switches …

Language switching is often associated with language competition and switching costs.
However, the underlying mechanisms might differ depending on context (free versus cued …

Despite increasing attention to bilingualism–conferences, publications, grants–linguists are
as far as ever from reaching consensus. Is code-switching the alternation between two …

We report two experiments that investigate the effects of sentence context on bilingual
lexical access in Spanish and English. Highly proficient Spanish-English bilinguals read …

The current study investigated the hypothesis that cognates (ie, translation equivalents that
overlap in form, eg, lemon is limón in Spanish) facilitate language switches. Spanish-English …

This study examined the asymmetrical language switching cost in a word reading task
(Experiment 1) and in a categorization task (Experiment 2 and 3). In Experiment 1, Spanish …

Previous research on language switching has debated whether high-proficient bilinguals
exhibit symmetrical costs and one underlying reason for which may be the potential …

This chapter shows how bilingual speech itself can elucidate the structure of Code-switching
(CS) and its relation to other outcomes of language contact, remembering that it is the …