Does a bilingual person have two separate lexicons and two separate grammatical
systems? Or should the bilingual linguistic competence be regarded as an integrated …

The standard participant in cognitive research on the bilingual mental lexicon is literate in
English and some other European language written in the same (Latin) script, ie, in a shared …

In this article, we provide a framework of bilingual grammar that offers a theoretical
understanding of the socio-cognitive bases of code-switching in terms of five general …

The study of bilingualism and multilingualism is an interdisciplinary and complex field. As is
self-evident from the prefixes (bi-and multi-), bilingualism and multilingualism phenomena …

Two conceptions of the linguistic system of bilinguals are in contention. The translanguaging
approach supports what we call a unitary view, arguing that bilingualism and …

On the surface, bi-and multilingualism would seem to be an ideal context for exploring
questions of typological proximity. The obvious intuition is that the more closely related two …

The study of how individuals use and process two or more languages is an extremely
important area of research, especially as the world's bilingual population continues to …

The present chapter approaches bilingual language interaction from a psycholinguistic
perspective and considers bilingual switching and transfer within the cognitive architecture …

Although variation in the ways individuals process language has long been a topic of
interest and discussion in the psycholinguistic literature, only recently have studies of …

Bilingualism/multilingualism is a natural phenomenon worldwide. Unwittingly, however,
monolingualism has been used as a standard to characterize and define bilingualism …