The multilingual lexicon: The cognitive and neural basis of lexical comprehension and production in two or more languages

JF Kroll, JW Gullifer, E Rossi - Annual review of applied linguistics, 2013 - cambridge.org
Recent studies have shown that when bilinguals or multilinguals read written words, listen to
spoken words, or plan words that they intend to speak in one language alone, information in …

Understanding the consequences of bilingualism for language processing and cognition

JF Kroll, E Bialystok - Journal of cognitive psychology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Contemporary research on bilingualism has been framed by two major discoveries. In the
realm of language processing, studies of comprehension and production show that …

Bilinguals reading in their second language do not predict upcoming words as native readers do

CD Martin, G Thierry, JR Kuipers, B Boutonnet… - Journal of memory and …, 2013 - Elsevier
During reading, monolingual readers actively predict upcoming words from sentence
context. Here we investigated whether bilingual readers predict sentence final words when …

Parallel language activation and cognitive control during spoken word recognition in bilinguals

HK Blumenfeld, V Marian - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Accounts of bilingual cognitive advantages suggest an associative link between
crosslinguistic competition and inhibitory control. We investigate this link by examining …

The representation and processing of identical cognates by late bilinguals: RT and ERP effects

D Peeters, T Dijkstra, J Grainger - Journal of memory and language, 2013 - Elsevier
Across the languages of a bilingual, translation equivalents can have the same orthographic
form and shared meaning (eg, TABLE in French and English). How such words, called …

Context-dependent semantic processing in the human brain: Evidence from idiom comprehension

J Rommers, T Dijkstra, M Bastiaansen - Journal of Cognitive …, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Language comprehension involves activating word meanings and integrating them
with the sentence context. This study examined whether these routines are carried out even …

When language switching has no apparent cost: Lexical access in sentence context

JW Gullifer, JF Kroll, PE Dussias - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
We report two experiments that investigate the effects of sentence context on bilingual
lexical access in Spanish and English. Highly proficient Spanish-English bilinguals read …

Two faces, two languages: An fMRI study of bilingual picture naming

Y Li, J Yang, KS Scherf, P Li - Brain and language, 2013 - Elsevier
This fMRI study explores how nonlinguistic cues modulate lexical activation in the bilingual
brain. We examined the influence of face race on bilingual language production in a picture …

Verb processing by bilinguals in sentence contexts: The effect of cognate status and verb tense

E Van Assche, W Duyck, M Brysbaert - Studies in Second Language …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Many studies on bilingual language processing have shown that lexical access is not
selective with respect to language. These studies typically used nouns as word stimuli. The …

The influence of sentence context and accented speech on lexical access in second-language auditory word recognition

E Lagrou, RJ Hartsuiker, W Duyck - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Until now, research on bilingual auditory word recognition has been scarce, and although
most studies agree that lexical access is language-nonselective, there is less consensus …