When hearing or reading words and sentences in a second language (L2), we face many
uncertainties about how the people and objects referred to are connected to one another. So …

The influence of phonological similarity on bilingual language processing was examined
within and across languages in three experiments. Phonological similarity was manipulated …

The “cognate facilitation effect” refers to the advantage cognate words have over non-
cognates in speed of recognition and production of words during the performance of multiple …

Barbara Hofer On the Dynamics of Early Multilingualism Page 1 Barbara Hofer On the Dynamics
of Early Multilingualism Page 2 Trends in Applied Linguistics Edited by Ulrike Jessner Claire …

This study is a comparative examination of reading behavior of first-language (L1) Canadian
and second-language (L2) Finnish and German readers of English. We measured eye …

A large body of research seeking to explore how form affects lexical processing in bilinguals
has suggested that orthographically similar translations (eg, English-Portuguese “paper …

We examined the effect of word stress position on bilingual auditory cognate processing.
Turkish–Dutch early bilinguals who are dominant in their L2 (Dutch) performed an auditory …

Automatic detection of cognates helps downstream NLP tasks of Machine Translation, Cross-
lingual Information Retrieval, Computational Phylogenetics and Cross-lingual Named Entity …

The question of possible coactivation of languages during language processing has been
one of the central issues in research on bilingualism. Of note, unless otherwise specified …

Verb bias, or the tendency of a verb to appear with a certain type of complement, has been
employed in psycholinguistic literature as a tool to test competing models of sentence …