We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

Deaf bilinguals for whom American Sign Language (ASL) is the first language and English is
the second language judged the semantic relatedness of word pairs in English. Critically, a …

Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals at suppressing task-irrelevant
information. The present study aimed to identify how processing linguistic ambiguity during …

Much work has examined whether deaf and hearing individuals' reading strategies are
qualitatively different, under the assumption that such differences might account for …

This experimental study investigates event construal by early Dutch–German bilinguals, as
reflected in their oral depiction of everyday events shown in video clips. The starting point is …

Research on bilingual word recognition suggests that lexical access is nonselective with
respect to language, ie, that word representations of both languages become active during …

This thesis is concerned with the outcomes of the parallel processes of first language
maintenance and second language acquisition in adult bilinguals resident in a second …

Previous work on bilingual language processing indicates that native-language skills can
influence second-language acquisition. The goal of the present work was to examine the …

This paper focuses on the dearth of language-processing research addressing Spanish
heritage speakers in assimilationist communities. First, we review key offline work on this …