Brysbaert and Duyck (this issue) suggest that it is time to abandon the Revised Hierarchical
Model (Kroll and Stewart, 1994) in favor of connectionist models such as BIA+ (Dijkstra and …

The acquisition of new skills over a life span is a remarkable human ability. This ability,
however, is constrained by age of acquisition (AoA); that is, the age at which learning occurs …

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

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 …

Despite an impressive psycholinguistic effort to explore the way in which two or more
languages are represented and controlled, controversy surrounds both issues. We argue …

NE INCIDENT DURING my years as a PhD student changed my views on Oacademic
research considerably: I was drafting a joint paper with my supervisor, Lesley Milroy, and in …

This study examines how the cross-linguistic similarity of translation equivalents affects
bilingual word recognition. Performing one of three tasks, Dutch–English bilinguals …

This study investigated the influence of frequency effects on the processing of congruent (ie,
having an equivalent first language [L1] construction) collocations and incongruent (ie, not …

This article assesses the influence of L1 intralexical knowledge on the formation of L2
intralexical collocations. Two tests, a primed lexical decision task (LDT) and a test of …

Abstract Language selection (or control) refers to the cognitive mechanism that controls
which language to use at a given moment and context. It allows bilinguals to selectively …