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Breaking Down the Bilingual Cost in Speech Production
(Cognitive Science, 2016)
Bilinguals have been shown to perform worse than monolinguals in a variety of verbal tasks. This
study investigated this bilingual verbal cost in a large-scale picture-naming study conducted in Spanish.
We explored how ...
Foreign-accented speech modulates linguistic anticipatory processes
(Neuropsychologia, 2016)
Listeners are able to anticipate upcoming words during sentence comprehension, and, as a result, they also pre-activate semantically related words. In the present study, we aim at exploring whether these anticipatory ...
World knowledge integration during second language comprehension
(Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016)
In order to study the difficulties experienced during sentence comprehension in a foreign language
(L2), we investigated semantic and world knowledge information retrieval in L2 comprehenders.
Event-related potentials ...
Holiday or vacation? The processing of variation in vocabulary across dialects
(Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016)
Native speakers with different linguistic backgrounds differ in their usage of language, and
particularly in their vocabulary. For instance, British natives would use the word "holiday" when
American natives would prefer ...
The proactive bilingual brain: Using interlocutor identity to generate predictions for language processing
(Scientific Reports, 2016)
The present study investigated the proactive nature of the human brain in language perception.
Specifically, we examined whether early proficient bilinguals can use interlocutor identity as a cue
for language prediction, ...