This chapter reviews recent developments on the comprehension of words and sentences in
two languages, which show that the lexicon and grammar have more in common than …

The paper opens with an evaluation of the BIA model of bilingual word recognition in the
light of recent empirical evidence. After pointing out problems and omissions, a new model …

Four eye-tracking experiments examined lexical competition in non-native spoken-word
recognition. Dutch listeners hearing English fixated longer on distractor pictures with names …

Normal aging is an inevitable race between increasing knowledge and decreasing cognitive
capacity. Crucial to understanding and promoting successful aging is determining which of …

The neurological and cognitive aspects of bilingual language processing were examined in
late Russian–English bilinguals using headband-mounted eyetracking and functional …

Early research on the representation and processing of information in bilingual memory
debated whether the two languages were stored and accessed together or separately in …

Spoken word recognition is characterized by multiple activation of sound patterns that are
consistent with the acoustic-phonetic input. Recently, an extreme form of multiple activation …

How do bilinguals recognize interlingual homophones? In a gating study, word identification
and language membership decisions by Dutch-English bilinguals were delayed for …

Lexical access in bilinguals is known to be largely non-selective. However, most studies in
this area have involved bilinguals whose two languages share the same script. This study …

The detailed comments of our colleagues on our keynote article suggest that they all value
the integration of various sorts of empirical data into one formalized model of bilingual word …