Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued
to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive …

Several researchers have suggested that learning and using a second language requires
domain-general executive functions, and many have shown that bilinguals outperform …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

To contrast mechanisms of lexical access in production versus comprehension we
compared the effects of word frequency (high, low), context (none, low constraint, high …

We investigated the consequences of bilingualism for verbal fluency by comparing
bilinguals to monolinguals, and dominant versus non-dominant-language fluency. In …

The primary goal of research on the functional and neural architecture of bilingualism is to
elucidate how bilingual individuals' language architecture is organized such that they can …

This chapter considers the consequences of bilingualism for planning speech in each of the
bilingual's two languages. Two accounts are contrasted of bilingual language production …

This article aims at revitalizing the debate concerning the measurement of language
proficiency (LP) in the study of bilingualism (Grosjean, 1998). A review is presented of the …

Six lexical decision experiments were conducted to examine the influence of complex
structure on the processing speed of English compounds. All experiments revealed that …

This study analyzed the association between levels of language proficiency and levels of
bilingualism and performance on verbal and nonverbal executive functions (working …