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 …

Proficient bilinguals demonstrate slower lexical retrieval than comparable monolinguals.
The present study tested predictions from two main accounts of this effect, the frequency-lag …

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 …

Cross-linguistic studies aim at determining the similarities and differences in speech
production by uncovering linguistic adaptations to specific constraints and environments. In …

Bilinguals' two languages seem to be coactivated in parallel during reading, speaking, and
listening. However, this coactivation in writing has been scarcely studied. This study aimed …

Abstract Language perception studies on bilinguals often show that words that share form
and meaning across languages (cognates) are easier to process than words that share only …

Diglossic speakers of two varieties of a language switch between their language varieties as
bilinguals do between their languages, instead of having the otherwise typical probabilistic …

Background Bilingual children and children diagnosed with developmental language
disorder (DLD) are characterized by reduced lexical‐retrieval abilities. Few studies …

Cognate facilitation and cognate interference in word production have been elicited
separately, in different paradigms. In our experiment, we created conditions for facilitation …

What we say generally follows distributional regularities, such as learning to avoid “the
asleep dog” because we hear “the dog that's asleep” in its place. However, not everyone …