Notwithstanding rising interest, a coherent picture of the brain's representation of two
languages has not yet been achieved. In the present meta-analysis we analysed a large …

The concept of acculturation has been based on the assumption of an adaptation process,
whereby immigrants lose aspects of their heritage cultures in favour of aspects of a host …

The computational BIA+ model (Dijkstra & Van Heuven, 2002) has provided a useful
account for bilingual word recognition, while the verbal (pre-quantitative) RHM (Kroll & …

In recent decades several authors have suggested that bilinguals exhibit enhanced
cognitive control as compared to monolinguals and some proposals suggest that this main …

Is acquiring a third language the same as acquiring a second? Are all instances of non-
native language acquisition simply one and the same? In this first book-length study of the …

Code-switching (CS) is central to many bilingual communities and, though linguistic and
sociolinguistic research has characterised different types of code-switches (alternations …

Normal aging is an inevitable race between increasing knowledge and decreasing cognitive
capacity. Crucial to understanding and promoting successful aging is determining which of …

This article assesses the influence of L1 intralexical knowledge on the formation of L2
intralexical collocations. Two tests, a primed lexical decision task (LDT) and a test of …

In 2005, Science magazine designated the problem of accounting for difficulties in L2
(second language) learning as one of the 125 outstanding challenges facing scientific …

Although research has consistently shown that a bilingual's two languages interact on
multiple levels, it is also well‐established that bilinguals can vary considerably in their …