We examined whether and how language produced by others influences self-language
processes. This study addressed this issue by looking at effects of comprehension on …

Switching language is costly for bilingual speakers and listeners, suggesting that language
control is effortful in both modalities. But are the mechanisms underlying language control …

Bilinguals spontaneously switch languages in conversation even though laboratory studies
reveal robust cued language switching costs. The authors investigated how voluntary …

Many theories of bilingual language production assume that when bilinguals process words
in their first language, representations from their second language are coactivated. Verhoef …

Many bilinguals switch languages in daily-life conversations. Although this usually happens
within sentence context and with another speaker, most research on the cognitive …

The neural mechanisms underlying one's own language production and the comprehension
of language produced by other speakers in daily communication remain elusive. Here, we …

Language switching is often associated with language competition and switching costs.
However, the underlying mechanisms might differ depending on context (free versus cued …

How bilinguals switch between languages depends on the context. In a voluntary context,
bilinguals are free to decide when to switch, whereas in a cued context they are instructed …

Code-switching is highly socially constrained. For instance, code-switching is only felicitous
when those present are fluent in both languages. This means that bilinguals need to …

We examined how bilinguals process language switches between their first (L1) and second
language (L2). Language switching costs (slower responses to language switch than …