in time in the case of the spoken signal, visual sub-lexical units such as location and
handshape are produced simultaneously in signs. In the current study we investigate the
role of sub-lexical units in lexical access in spoken Spanish and in Spanish Sign Language
(LSE) in hearing early bimodal bilinguals and in hearing second language (L2) learners of
LSE, both native speakers of Spanish, using the visual world paradigm. Experiment 1 …