Bilingual speech requires that the language of utterances be selected prior to articulation.
Past research has debated whether the language of speaking can be determined in …

We share an interest in language. We want to understand it, its origins, structure, functions,
use, acquisition, instruction, and change. We seek causes for observed effects. Scientific …

Although bilinguals rarely make random errors of language when they speak, research on
spoken production provides compelling evidence to suggest that both languages are active …

Bilinguals spontaneously switch languages in conversation even though laboratory studies
reveal robust cued language switching costs. The authors investigated how voluntary …

Psycholinguistics has traditionally focused on language processing in monolingual
speakers. In the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase of research on …

Bilingualism is common throughout the world, and bilingual children regularly develop into
fluently bilingual adults. In contrast, children with cochlear implants (CIs) are frequently …

To contrast mechanisms of lexical access in production versus comprehension we
compared the effects of word frequency (high, low), context (none, low constraint, high …

In 3 experiments, a total of 151 monolingual and bilingual 6-year-old children performed
similarly on measures of language and cognitive ability; however, bilinguals solved the …

A series of discoveries in the past two decades has changed the way we think about
bilingualism and its implications for language and cognition. One is that both of the …

We report three experiments on two groups of Spanish–English bilinguals who differed in
codeswitching experience (codeswitchers and non-codeswitchers) to examine how different …