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 …

A rich body of work in adult bilinguals documents an interconnected lexical network across
languages, such that early word retrieval is language independent. This literature has …

In studies of bilingual word recognition with masked priming, first language (L1) primes
activate their second language (L2) translation equivalents in lexical decision tasks, but …

A growing consensus sees the bilingual lexicon as an integrated, nonselective system.
However, the way bilingual experience shapes the architecture and functioning of the …

Cross-language priming is a widely used experimental paradigm in psycholinguistics to
study how bilinguals' two languages are represented and organized. Researchers have …

The languages of multilingual speakers exist in a complex and multidirectional set of
interactions, which cannot be readily anticipated from the dynamics of bilingual systems …

Aims: The study investigates the effects of L2 proficiency and L2 exposure on L2-to-L1 cross-
language activation (CLA) in L1-dominant bilinguals. In so doing, it tests the predictions …

The aim of the present study was to determine whether bilinguals activate the figurative
meaning of an idiom that is specific to one language when they are exposed to its translation …

Abstract According to the Collocational Priming Theory, every word is primed to co-occur
with particular other related words and priming could be regarded as the source of our …

Connectionist models have had a profound impact on theories of language science, but
researchers have only recently started to explore the implications of these models in second …