Bilingualism, mind, and brain

JF Kroll, PE Dussias, K Bice, L Perrotti - Annu. Rev. Linguist., 2015 - annualreviews.org
The use of two or more languages is common in most of the world. Yet, until recently,
bilingualism was considered to be a complicating factor for language processing, cognition …

Grammatical processing in language learners

H Clahsen, C Felser - Applied psycholinguistics, 2006 - cambridge.org
The ability to process the linguistic input in real time is crucial for successfully acquiring a
language, and yet little is known about how language learners comprehend or produce …

The comprehension of words and sentences in two languages

JF Kroll, PE Dussias - The handbook of bilingualism and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews recent developments on the comprehension of words and sentences in
two languages, which show that the lexicon and grammar have more in common than …

Automatic foveation for video compression using a neurobiological model of visual attention

L Itti - IEEE transactions on image processing, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We evaluate the applicability of a biologically-motivated algorithm to select visually-salient
regions of interest in video streams for multiply-foveated video compression. Regions are …

Juggling two languages in one mind: What bilinguals tell us about language processing and its consequences for cognition

JF Kroll, PE Dussias, CA Bogulski, JRV Kroff - Psychology of learning and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Psycholinguistics has traditionally focused on language processing in monolingual
speakers. In the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase of research on …

Parsing strategies in L1 and L2 sentence processing: A study of relative clause attachment in Greek

D Papadopoulou, H Clahsen - Studies in Second Language …, 2003 - cambridge.org
To contribute to a better understanding of second language (L2) sentence processing, the
present study examines how L2 learners parse temporarily ambiguous sentences …

The effect of exposure on syntactic parsing in Spanish–English bilinguals

PE Dussias, N Sagarra - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2007 - cambridge.org
An eye tracking experiment examined how exposure to a second language (L2) influences
sentence parsing in the first language. Forty-four monolingual Spanish speakers, 24 …

The processing of ambiguous sentences by first and second language learners of English

C Felser, L Roberts, T Marinis, R Gross - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2003 - cambridge.org
This study investigates the way adult second language (L2) learners of English resolve
relative clause attachment ambiguities in sentences such as The dean liked the secretary of …

Syntactic ambiguity resolution in L2 learners: Some effects of bilinguality on L1 and L2 processing strategies

PE Dussias - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003 - cambridge.org
This study investigates whether proficient second language (L2) speakers of Spanish and
English use the same parsing strategies as monolinguals when reading temporarily …

Syntactic priming of relative clause attachments: Persistence of structural configuration in sentence production

C Scheepers - Cognition, 2003 - Elsevier
Three sentence completion experiments will be reported in which participants had to
generate German equivalents of “the servant of the actress who…”(NP-of-NP-RC) …