The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q) is a validated
questionnaire tool for collecting self-reported proficiency and experience data from bilingual …

A series of recent studies have shown that the once-assumed cognitive advantage of
bilingualism finds little support in the evidence available to date. Surprisingly, however, the …

This book is intended to give you a broad overview of Applied Linguistics. It will introduce
you to important areas in the field, and familiarize you with the key issues in each of those …

During speech comprehension, bilinguals co-activate both of their languages, resulting in
cross-linguistic interaction at various levels of processing. This interaction has important …

Accounts of bilingual cognitive advantages suggest an associative link between
crosslinguistic competition and inhibitory control. We investigate this link by examining …

Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals at suppressing task-irrelevant
information and on overall speed during cognitive control tasks. Here, monolinguals' and …

Bimodal bilinguals, fluent in a signed and a spoken language, exhibit a unique form of
bilingualism because their two languages access distinct sensory-motor systems for …

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 …

In the context of current approaches to anticipation in native and non-native sentence
processing, this paper investigates whether late second-language (L2) learners integrate …

Findings from recent studies suggest that spoken-language bilinguals engage nonlinguistic
inhibitory control mechanisms to resolve cross-linguistic competition during auditory word …