Polysemy: Current Perspectives and Approaches Page 1 1 Polysemy: Current Perspectives
and Approaches Ingrid Lossius Falkum & Agustin Vicente 1. Preliminaries Polysemy is usually …

This article focuses on the construct of language dominance in bilinguals and the ways in
which this construct has been operationalized. Language dominance is often seen as …

Semantic cognition requires conceptual representations shaped by verbal and nonverbal
experience and executive control processes that regulate activation of knowledge to meet …

Semantic ambiguity is typically measured by summing the number of senses or dictionary
definitions that a word has. Such measures are somewhat subjective and may not …

We present a new database of lexical decision times for English words and nonwords, for
which two groups of British participants each responded to 14,365 monosyllabic and …

EEG correlates of a range of psycholinguistic word properties were used to investigate the
time course of access to psycholinguistic information during visual word recognition …

A number of regions of the temporal and frontal lobes are known to be important for spoken
language comprehension, yet we do not have a clear understanding of their functional role …

The present study investigated the cognitive nature of second language (L2) lexical
processing in sentence context. We examined bilinguals' L2 word recognition performance …

Most theories of concepts take concepts to be structured bodies of information used in
categorization and inference. This paper argues for a version of atomism, on which concepts …

In four experiments, we investigated how cross-linguistic overlap in semantics, orthography,
and phonology affects bilingual word recognition in different variants of the lexical decision …