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 …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

The past fifteen years have witnessed an increasing interest in the cognitive study of the
bilingual. A major reason why psychologists, psycholinguists, applied linguists …

Recent years have seen increasing interest in research on bilingualism and second
language learning. These studies of bilinguals have revealed aspects of the human mind …

Contemporary research on bilingualism has been framed by two major discoveries. In the
realm of language processing, studies of comprehension and production show that …

Interests in the study of bilingualism in recent years are grounded in the prospect that
interdisciplinary research in this domain will lead to fundamental understanding of the …

The nature of bilingual cognitive processing advantages and disadvantages can be used to
constrain models of bilingual language processing and to highlight aspects of cognitive …

Recent psycholinguistic research demonstrates that using a second language has
consequences for the first language (eg Dussias, 2003; Van Hell & Dijkstra, 2002) and for …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents the bilingual language comprehension and
production. Bilinguals are rarely equally proficient or balanced in their use of the two …

For decades, bilingualism has resisted definition. If bilingualism is defined as habitual,
fluent, correct and accent-free use of two languages, few individuals would qualify as …