Timed picture naming was compared in seven languages that vary along dimensions known
to affect lexical access. Analyses over items focused on factors that determine cross …

Abstract Words and pictures with earlier learned labels are processed faster than words and
pictures with later learned labels. This age-of-acquisition (AoA) effect has been extensively …

Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has
lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, which draws on twenty-five years of the …

This study investigates the grammatical representations of nearnatives with the aim of
providing an account of the selectiveness observed in the morphosyntactic properties that …

The relation between access to the syntactic and to the phonological features of words in
lexical access is investigated in two experiments. Italian speakers were asked to provide the …

Some theories of lexical access in production locate the effect of lexical frequency at the
retrieval of a word's phonological characteristics, as opposed to the prior retrieval of a …

A discussion of modularity in language production processes, with special emphasis on
processes for retrieving words and building syntactic structures for a to-be-uttered sentence …

The goals of the present study were (1) to determine whether grammatical gender on a noun
modifier can prime recognition of the following noun,(2) to determine whether the priming …

Following a brief history of age of acquisition (AoA) research and consideration of measures
of AoA, this review examines AoA effects in lexical processing tasks (such as object naming …

Several phonological and prosodic properties of words have been shown to relate to
differences between grammatical categories. Distributional information about grammatical …