Brysbaert and Duyck (this issue) suggest that it is time to abandon the Revised Hierarchical
Model (Kroll and Stewart, 1994) in favor of connectionist models such as BIA+ (Dijkstra and …

Word frequency is the most important variable in research on word processing and memory.
Yet, the main criterion for selecting word frequency norms has been the availability of the …

NE INCIDENT DURING my years as a PhD student changed my views on Oacademic
research considerably: I was drafting a joint paper with my supervisor, Lesley Milroy, and in …

Bilingual speech requires that the language of utterances be selected prior to articulation.
Past research has debated whether the language of speaking can be determined in …

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

Behavioral and neurophysiological effects of word imageability and concreteness remain a
topic of central interest in cognitive neuroscience and could provide essential clues for …

This chapter reviews experimental research into learning foreign language (FL) vocabulary,
focusing on direct methods of teaching, such as keyword mnemonics, paired association …

A word association experiment examined conceptual representation in bilingual memory.
Dutch-English bilinguals associated twice to nouns and verbs that varied on concreteness …

A central issue in theories of bilingual language representation concerns the map** of
form to meaning. Past research on this topic sought to determine whether word forms and …

We looked at foreign‐language (FL) vocabulary learning and forgetting in experienced FL
learners, using a paired‐associate training technique in which native‐language words were …