This study examines how the cross-linguistic similarity of translation equivalents affects
bilingual word recognition. Performing one of three tasks, Dutch–English bilinguals …

The authors induced tip-of-the-tongue states (TOTs) for English words in monolinguals and
bilinguals using picture stimuli with cognate (eg, vampire, which is vampiro in Spanish) and …

During spoken word-recognition, bilinguals have been shown to access their two languages
simultaneously. The present study examined effects of language proficiency and lexical …

A goal of second language (L2) learning is to enable learners to understand and speak L2
words without mediation through the first language (L1). However, psycholinguistic research …

The present study aimed to determine how older bilingual subjects' naming performance is
affected by their knowledge of two languages. Twenty-nine aging (mean age= 74.0; SD …

As globalization has increased awareness of the extent of language contact and linguistic
diversity, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism have taken on an …

Researchers on bilingual processing can benefit from computational tools developed in
artificial intelligence. We show that a normalized Levenshtein distance function can …

There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the
characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born today master any …

One of the main issues addressed in bilingual research has been how bilinguals represent
and access the words from their two languages. Studies carried out in different languages …

In this study we explored factors that determine the knowledge of L2 words with orthographic
neighbours in L1 (cognates and false cognates). We asked 150 Polish learners of English to …