Linguistic alignment is defined as the development of aligned representations drawing on
an automatic psycholinguistic priming mechanism that acts on every level of linguistic …

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease characterised by damage affecting large
bundles of white matter fibres. Morphological segmentation of complex words (eg walked) …

Previous research has shown that as the level of background noise increases, auditory word
recognition performance drops off more rapidly for bilinguals than monolinguals. This …

Current theories of bilingualism disagree on the extent to which separate brain regions are
used to maintain or process one's first and second language. The present study took a novel …

We tested whether verb-based prediction in late bilinguals is facilitated when the verb is a
cognate versus non-cognate. Spanish–English bilinguals and Chinese–English bilinguals …

Cognates are studied in many psychological studies of bilingual language processing.
Despite their frequent use, there is no clear operationalized definition of what constitutes a …

Purpose: This study investigates whether crosslinguistic effects on auditory word recognition
are modulated by the quality of the auditory signal (clear and noisy). Method: In an online …

Cognates, words that are similar in form and meaning across two languages, form
compelling test cases for bilingual access and representation. Overwhelmingly, cognate …

Spoken language comprehension is a fundamental component of our cognitive skills. We
are quite proficient at deciphering words from the auditory input despite the fact that the …

Receptive multilingualism is a form of communication where speakers can comprehend an
utterance of a foreign language (Lx) using their native language (L1) when L1 and Lx share …