We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

A discussion of modularity in language production processes, with special emphasis on
processes for retrieving words and building syntactic structures for a to-be-uttered sentence …

Five experiments are reported in which the picture naming performance of bilingual
speakers in a language-switching task was explored. In Experiment 1, Spanish learners of …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

The “weaker links” hypothesis proposes that bilinguals are disadvantaged relative to
monolinguals on speaking tasks because they divide frequency-of-use between two …

In a regression study of conversational speech, we show that frequency, contextual
predictability, and repetition have separate contributions to word duration, despite their …

Bilinguals named pictures in their dominant language more slowly (and with more errors)
than did monolinguals. In contrast, bilinguals named the same pictures as quickly as did …

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

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 the present study, we tested the hypothesis that bilingualism may cause a linguistic
disadvantage in lexical access even for bilinguals' first and dominant language. To this …