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 …

A series of recent studies have shown that the once-assumed cognitive advantage of
bilingualism finds little support in the evidence available to date. Surprisingly, however, the …

The present study was aimed at investigating how the effects of a second language (L2)
immersion on first language (L1) production are modulated by lexical frequency and the …

Over the last decade, research on multilingualism has grown and has provided researchers
with new insights into the mechanisms at work in the multilingual brain. While some studies …

A crucial step for understanding how lexical knowledge is represented is to describe the
relative similarity of lexical items, and how it influences language processing. Previous …

The analysis of speech onset times has a longstanding tradition in experimental psychology
as a measure of how a stimulus influences a spoken response. Yet the lack of accurate …

Bilingual speakers access individual words less fluently, quickly, and accurately than
monolinguals, particularly when accessing low-frequency words. Here we examined …

Despite a meteoric rise, results in the cognitive science of bilingualism present with
significant inconsistency. In parallel, there is a striking absence of an ecologically valid …

Despite a large amount of psycholinguistic research devoted to the issue of processing
differences between a first and a second language, there is no consensus regarding the …

This study explores the interaction between deceptive language and second language
processing. One hundred participants were asked to produce veridical and false statements …