Since the crucial importance of vocabulary knowledge in the language learning process has
finally been recognized, the mental lexicon has also been the focus of attention in a number …

The current research investigated the organization of the second language mental lexicon.
Twenty-seven English-Hebrew bilingual speakers (who spoke Hebrew as their second …

The work of cognitive translation scholars, while motivated by questions about translational
phenomena, necessarily engages with theoretical developments in the disciplines of …

Words are the building blocks of human communication and provide a strong foundation for
the development of skilled language production and comprehension. Learning words in a …

Multilingual research could offer a unique perspective on how the languages already
acquired by a person affect the online processing of a new language. But it is currently …

Research on bilingual word recognition suggests that lexical access is nonselective with
respect to language, ie, that word representations of both languages become active during …

The major aim of the present megastudy of picture-naming norms was to address the
shortcomings of the available picture data sets used in psychological and linguistic research …

Speakers of multiple languages must store the respective lexical items efficiently to enable
correct access. Importantly, all items must be linked to semantic information and world …

This study investigated the effects of cross-linguistic influence in Japanese speakers'
integration of morphological and syntactic information during the processing of Korean …

The first part of the chapter reviews the literature on reading in adult bilinguals, and the
second part reviews the literature on reading development. The focus of the review is on …