Recent studies indicate that the human brain attends to and uses grammatical gender cues
during sentence comprehension. Here, we examine the nature and time course of the effect …

Timed picture naming was compared in seven languages that vary along dimensions known
to affect lexical access. Analyses over items focused on factors that determine cross …

This article introduces EsPal: a Web-accessible repository containing a comprehensive set
of properties of Spanish words. EsPal is based on an extensible set of data sources …

In a recent study, Lew-Williams and Fernald (2007) showed that native Spanish speakers
use grammatical gender information encoded in Spanish articles to facilitate the processing …

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second
Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in …

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500
new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web …

Nonwords created by transposing two adjacent letters (ie, transposed-letter (TL) nonwords
like jugde) are very effective at activating the lexical representation of their base words. This …

This article describes a Windows program that enables users to obtain a broad range of
statistics concerning the properties of word and nonword stimuli in Spanish, including word …

We present two experiments that examine how prior discourse context, and in particular the
relative salience of different pieces of information, influences the syntactic structure that a …

Bilingual individuals need effective mechanisms to prevent interference from one language
while processing material in the other. Here we show, using event-related brain potentials …