Lexical selection, cross-language interaction, and switch costs in habitually codeswitching bilinguals

Language Dominance Modulates Cross-language Lexical Interaction in Late Immersed Bilinguals

Languages differ in the way they package elements of the world into words, which poses a challenge for bilinguals. We examined word use patterns for common household objects for late-immersed Chinese-English bilinguals to investigate how the bilingual lexical network develops when the first language is fully mature at the time of second-language immersion. We found changes to both firstand seco...

Is lexical selection in bilingual speech production language-specific? Further evidence from SpanishEnglish and EnglishSpanish bilinguals

In this study we address the question of how lexical selection is achieved by bilingual speakers during speech production. Speci®cally, we test whether there is competition between the two lexicons of a bilingual during lexical access. In two picture±word interference experiments we explore the performance of two groups of bilinguals, English±Spanish and Spanish±English pro®cient bilinguals whi...

Codeswitching and the timing of Lexical Insertion

Lexical Selection for Cross-Language Applications: Combining LCS with WordNet

This paper describes experiments for testing the power of large-scale resources for lexical selection in machine translation (MT) and cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). We adopt the view that verbs with similar argument structure share certain meaning components , but that those meaning components are more relevant to argument realization than to idiosyncratic verb meaning. We verify ...

Balanced bilinguals favor lexical processing in their opaque language and conversion system in their shallow language.

Referred to as orthographic depth, the degree of consistency of grapheme/phoneme correspondences varies across languages from high in shallow orthographies to low in deep orthographies. The present study investigates the impact of orthographic depth on reading route by analyzing evoked potentials to words in a deep (French) and shallow (German) language presented to highly proficient bilinguals...