Electrophysiological studies consistently find N400 effects of semantic incongruity in
nonnative (L2) language comprehension. These N400 effects are often delayed compared …

When bilinguals produce words in one language, their translation equivalents in the other
language are thought to be activated as well. A common assumption is that this parallel co …

Recent studies suggest that heterogeneous bilingual experiences implicate different
executive functions (EF) in children. Using a latent profile analysis, we conducted a more …

When bilinguals process written language, they show delays in accessing lexical items
relative to monolinguals. The present study investigated whether this effect extended to …

Abstract Language and memory are closely intertwined in the human cognitive architecture.
Language acquisition depends on successful memory encoding and retrieval; at the same …

The use of orthographic and phonological information in spoken word recognition was
studied in a visual world task where L1 Finnish learners of L2 French (n= 64) and L1 French …

This chapter provides a selective overview of recent research on the phonetics and
phonology of bilingualism. The central idea put forth in the chapter is that, in bilingualism …

For bilinguals, research suggests that both languages are constantly active and competing
in the mind, even when only using one. However, this body of work has reported …

Verb bias, or the tendency of a verb to appear with a certain type of complement, has been
employed in psycholinguistic literature as a tool to test competing models of sentence …

The intent of this chapter is to provide a selective overview of current second language
acquisition (SLA) research. I begin by presenting several approaches to SLA, including …