bilingualism

Linking frequency to bilingual switch costs during real-time sentence comprehension

Bilinguals experience processing costs when comprehending code-switches, yet the magnitude of the cost fluctuates depending on numerous factors. We tested whether switch costs vary based on the frequency of different types of code-switches, as …

Moving from bilingual traits to states: Understanding cognition and language processing through moment-to-moment variation

The study of how bilingualism is linked to cognitive processing, including executive functioning, has historically focused on comparing bilinguals to monolinguals across a range of tasks. These group comparisons presume to capture relatively stable …

A new look at 'the hard problem' of bilingual lexical access: Evidence for language switch costs with univalent stimuli

Considerable work has used language-switching tasks to investigate how bilinguals manage competition between languages. Language-switching costs have been argued to reflect persisting inhibition or persisting activation of a non-target language. …