Recent years have seen increasing interest in research on bilingualism and second
language learning. These studies of bilinguals have revealed aspects of the human mind …

This chapter reviews recent developments on the comprehension of words and sentences in
two languages, which show that the lexicon and grammar have more in common than …

Contemporary research on bilingualism has been framed by two major discoveries. In the
realm of language processing, studies of comprehension and production show that …

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 …

Across the languages of a bilingual, translation equivalents can have the same orthographic
form and shared meaning (eg, TABLE in French and English). How such words, called …

Research on proficient bilinguals has demonstrated that both languages are always active,
even when only one is required. The coactivation of the two languages creates both …

To investigate whether second language processing is characterized by the same sensitivity
to the emotional content of language–as compared to native language processing–we …

NIM is Web-based software developed to help experimenters with some of the usual tasks
carried out in psycholinguistic studies. It allows the user to search for words according to …

Although variation in the ways individuals process language has long been a topic of
interest and discussion in the psycholinguistic literature, only recently have studies of …

Noun translation equivalents that share orthographic and semantic features, called
“cognates”, are generally recognized faster than translation equivalents without such …