Research addressing the possible cognitive consequences of bilingualism for children's
development has found mixed results when seeking effects in domains such as language …

The LL&LT monograph series publishes monographs as well as edited volumes on applied
and methodological issues in the field of language pedagogy. The focus of the series is on …

The neural systems underlying translation and language switching were investigated using
PET. Proficient German–English adult bilinguals were scanned whilst either translating or …

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 …

The mapping of lexical form to meaning is an important part of vocabulary acquisition in a
second language (L2). This study examines the proposition that L2 lexical forms are often …

The Web is intrinsically a global medium. Consequently, deciding how a Web site should
express potentially culture-specific content to worldwide visitors is an important …

Bicultural bilingual individuals have incorporated two cultures within themselves and speak
the languages of those cultures. When cued by a particular language, these individuals …

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 …

The Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM) of bilingual language processing dominates current
thinking on bilingual language processing. Recently, basic tenets of the model have been …

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