Language can have a powerful effect on how people experience events. Here, we examine
how the languages people speak guide attention and influence what they remember from a …

We investigated the role of cue weighting, second language (L2) proficiency, and L2 daily
exposure in L2 learning of suprasegmentals different from the first language (L1), using eye …

Children acquire language more easily than adults, though it is controversial whether this
faculty declines as a result of a critical period or something else. To address this question …

The present study examined the process of L2 orthographic learning in bilinguals with
distant L1–L2 orthographies. Chinese–English bilinguals with various English proficiency …

Code-switching is generally dispreferred at points of non-shared word order across a
bilingual's two languages. In priming studies, this dispreference persists even following …

This study investigates the impact of study-abroad experience (SAE) on lexical translation
among 50 Chinese (L1)-English (L2) interpreting students. Participants were divided into …

Aims: The study investigates the effects of L2 proficiency and L2 exposure on L2-to-L1 cross-
language activation (CLA) in L1-dominant bilinguals. In so doing, it tests the predictions …

Probabilistic associations make language processing efficient and are honed through
experience. However, it is unclear what language experience factors explain the non …

We investigated bidirectional cross-linguistic influence on motion event (ME) expressions in
bilingual speakers of two typological different languages (Talmy's typology), Spanish (as L1) …

Abstract Language experience is essential for SLA. Yet, studies comparing the role of L2
proficiency and L2 use on L2 processing are scant, and there are no studies examining how …