Contemporary research on bilingualism has been framed by two major discoveries. In the
realm of language processing, studies of comprehension and production show that …

Psycholinguistics has traditionally focused on language processing in monolingual
speakers. In the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase of research on …

A series of discoveries in the past two decades has changed the way we think about
bilingualism and its implications for language and cognition. One is that both of the …

The use of two or more languages is common in most of the world. Yet, until recently,
bilingualism was considered to be a complicating factor for language processing, cognition …

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 …

The article reports research investigating the way bilingualism affects cognitive and linguistic
performance across the life span. In general, bilingualism appears to have both benefits and …

The nature of bilingual cognitive processing advantages and disadvantages can be used to
constrain models of bilingual language processing and to highlight aspects of cognitive …

Perennial questions about bilingualism concern the relationship between the two language
systems in the same mind. Do they form two separate systems for processing language or a …

The cognitive and linguistic processes involved in the acquisition and use of two languages
are systematically different from those processes engaged in monolingual language use …

This article provides an overview of the psycholinguistic research concerning the processes
and representations that bilinguals use while processing language. We review the lexical …