Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth,
we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our …

The standard participant in cognitive research on the bilingual mental lexicon is literate in
English and some other European language written in the same (Latin) script, ie, in a shared …

Masked translation priming effects were examined for Japanese–English bilinguals using
both cognate and noncognate translation equivalents. In Experiment 1, L1 primes and L2 …

Two primed naming experiments tested the orthographic depth hypothesis in skilled
biliterate readers of Hindi and Urdu. These languages are very similar on the spoken level …

The present research factorially examined the effects of homophone density, visual
frequency, and phonological frequency (defined here as the cumulative frequency of …

Highlights•Masked priming effects exist in Chinese if the prime is the target written
backward.•These effects are not based on phonological similarity between the prime and …

Previous research has demonstrated cognate translation priming effects in masked priming
lexical decision tasks (LDTs) even when a bilingual's two languages have different scripts …

Bilingual studies using alphabetic languages have shown parallel activation of two
languages during word recognition. However, little is known about the brain mechanisms of …

Two experiments investigated whether Japanese–English bilinguals have integrated
phonological stores for their two languages using a masked phonological priming task with …

Previous masked translation priming studies, especially those with different-script bilinguals,
have shown that cognates provide more priming than noncognates, a difference attributed to …