Bilingual semantic representation and lexical access

The Nature of Lexical-Semantic Access in Bilingual Aphasia

BACKGROUND Despite a growing clinical need, there are no clear guidelines on assessment of lexical access in the two languages in individuals with bilingual aphasia. Objective. In this study, we examined the influence of language proficiency on three tasks requiring lexical access in English and Spanish bilingual normal controls and in bilingual individuals with aphasia. METHODS 12 neurologic...

Lexical Access, Lexical Representation, and Vowel Production

Previous research (Munson and Solomon 2004; Wright 2004) has shown that both phonological neighborhood density and word frequency influence the size of the acoustic F1/F2 vowel space. This study investigated whether these influences reflect the role of real-time lexical access processes on articulation. Specifically, it examined the influence of word frequency and phonological neighborhood dens...

Language nonselective lexical access in bilingual toddlers.

We examined how words from bilingual toddlers' second language (L2) primed recognition of related target words in their first language (L1). On critical trials, prime-target word pairs were either (a) phonologically related, with L2 primes overlapped phonologically with L1 target words [e.g., slide (L2 prime)-Kleid (L1 target, "dress")], or (b) phonologically related through translation, with L...

The Effect of Semantic Transfer on Iranian EFL Learners’ Lexical Representation and Processing

Bilingual Lexical Access During Comprehension 1 Running Head: BILINGUAL LEXICAL ACCESS DURING COMPREHENSION Bilinguals Show Weaker Lexical Access During Spoken Sentence Comprehension

When bilinguals process written language, they show delays in accessing lexical items relative to monolinguals. The present study investigated whether this effect extended to spoken language comprehension, examining the processing of sentences with either low or high semantic constraint in both first and second languages. English-German bilinguals, German-English bilinguals and English monoling...