When participants in an experiment have to name pictures while ignoring distractor words
superimposed on the picture or presented auditorily (ie, picture-word interference …

The investigation of semantic context effects has served as a valuable tool in investigating
mechanisms of language production. Classic semantic interference effects have provided …

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 …

The dominant view in the field of lexical access in speech production maintains that
selection of a word becomes more difficult as the levels of activation of nontarget words …

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

Language research has provided insight into how speakers translate a thought into a
sequence of sounds that ultimately becomes words, phrases, and sentences. Despite the …

The item-specific proportion congruency (ISPC) effect is the finding of attenuated
interference for mostly incongruent as compared to mostly congruent items. A debate in the …

Models of bilingual speech production generally assume that translation equivalent lexical
nodes share a common semantic representation. Though this type of architecture is highly …

This work investigates production preferences in different languages. Specifically, it
examines how animacy, competition processes, and language-specific constraints shape …

We use a masked priming procedure to test two accounts of the picture-word interference
(PWI) effect: the lexical selection by competition account (Levelt et al., 1999; Roelofs, 1992) …