How does the bilingual experience sculpt the brain?

A Costa, N Sebastián-Gallés - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
The ability to speak two languages often marvels monolinguals, although bilinguals report
no difficulties in achieving this feat. Here, we examine how learning and using two …

Predictive sentence processing in L2 and L1: What is different?

E Kaan - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2014 - jbe-platform.com
There is ample evidence that native speakers anticipate upcoming information at various
levels during sentence comprehension. In contrast, some studies on late second-language …

Individual differences in inhibitory control relate to bilingual spoken word processing

J Mercier, I Pivneva, D Titone - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2014 - cambridge.org
We investigated whether individual differences in inhibitory control relate to bilingual spoken
word recognition. While their eye movements were monitored, native English and native …

Bilingualism increases neural response consistency and attentional control: Evidence for sensory and cognitive coupling

J Krizman, E Skoe, V Marian, N Kraus - Brain and language, 2014 - Elsevier
Auditory processing is presumed to be influenced by cognitive processes–including
attentional control–in a top-down manner. In bilinguals, activation of both languages during …

Parallel language activation during word processing in bilinguals: Evidence from word production in sentence context

PA Starreveld, AMB De Groot… - Bilingualism …, 2014 - cambridge.org
In two picture-naming experiments we examined whether bilinguals co-activate the non-
target language during word production in the target language. The pictures were presented …

Real-time grammar processing by native and non-native speakers: Constructions unique to the second language

D Trenkic, J Mirkovic, GTM Altmann - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2014 - cambridge.org
We investigated second language (L2) comprehension of grammatical structures that are
unique to the L2, and which are known to cause persistent difficulties in production. A visual …

[HTML][HTML] Second language experience modulates word retrieval effort in bilinguals: evidence from pupillometry

J Schmidtke - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Bilingual speakers often have less language experience compared to monolinguals as a
result of speaking two languages and/or a later age of acquisition of the second language …

[图书][B] Lexical processing and second language acquisition

N Tokowicz - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
Lexical Processing and Second Language Acquisition provides a comprehensive overview
of research on second language lexical processing, integrating converging research and …

[PDF][PDF] Attention control and inhibition influence phonological development in a second language

I Darcy, JC Mora, D Daidone - 2014 - scholarworks.iu.edu
This study investigated the role of attention control and inhibition in L2 learners'
phonological processing. Participants were 16 L1‐Spanish/L2‐English learners, and 18 L1 …

The influence of inhibitory skill on phonological representations in production and perception☆

S Lev-Ari, S Peperkamp - Journal of Phonetics, 2014 - Elsevier
Inhibition is known to play a role in speech perception and has been hypothesized to
likewise influence speech production. In this paper we test whether individual differences in …