With eye-tracking technology the eye is thought to give researchers a window into the mind.
Importantly, eye-tracking has significant advantages over traditional online processing …

Bilingualism and its cognitive impacts have drawn increasing interest. Recently,
inconsistencies in the findings have raised discussions on what might have caused such …

This chapter introduces the concept of linguistic multi-competence and sets the scene for the
rest of the book. It looks first at issues of definition and then at three premises that have …

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the
application of second language acquisition research to language teaching. Assuming no …

We exploit the unique phonetic properties of bilingual speech to ask how processes
occurring during planning affect speech articulation, and whether listeners can use the …

Bilinguals demonstrate benefits on non-linguistic tasks requiring cognitive control—the
regulation of mental activity to resolve information-conflict during processing. This “bilingual …

This study investigated the role of inhibition in second language (L2) learners' phonological
processing. Participants were Spanish learners of L2 English and American learners of L2 …

We investigate the 'gender-congruency'effect during a spoken-word recognition task using
the visual world paradigm. Eye movements of Italian–Spanish bilinguals and Spanish …

This chapter treats transfer as one of the central relationships between languages in the
second language (L2) user's mind, rather than as social interaction or language contact. It …

The present study examines the effect of two potential catalysts for interlanguage phonetic
interaction, code-switching and language mode, on the production of voice onset time (VOT) …