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This book provides students and researchers of bilingualism with the most recent methodological and theoretical advances on how bilinguals resolve ambiguous information across languages. With reports on the latest findings from the behavioral and neuropsychological fields, the authors survey the latest research into bilingual language-system modelling and bilingual lexical ambiguity processing. Each chapter looks at bilingual ambiguity resolution both at the word and sentence levels, explaining how bilinguals ultimately comprehend ambiguous information arising from languages they already know. This volume not only explores enduring theoretical questions in bilingual research, such as bilingual representation and language processing, but also evaluates the extent to which the existing bilingual models can satisfactorily account for the most recent research findings.
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Acknowledgements; Contributors; Preface; Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations: 1. The cross-modal lexical priming paradigm and bilingual exhaustive access Roberto R. Heredia and Anna B. Cie¿licka; 2. Theory visualizations for bilingual models of lexical ambiguity resolution J. Benjamin Falandays and Michael J. Spivey; 3. Bilingual lexical access Eva Van Assche, Marc Brysbaert and Wouter Duyck; Part II. Bilingual Lexical Processing: 4. Cognate processing effects in bilingual lexical access Agnieszka Lijewska; 5. Translation ambiguity John Schwieter and Anat Prior; 6. Lexical selection and competition in bilinguals Mikel Santesteban and John Schwieter; Part III. Bilingual Sentence Processing: 7. Bilingual lexical access and reading Pauline Palma and Debra Titone; 8. Online ambiguity resolution in bilingual lexical access Omar García, Anna B. Cie¿licka and Roberto R. Heredia; Part IV. Neuroscience of Bilingual Lexical Access: 9. Behavioral and neuro correlates of bilingual lexical ambiguity Veronica Whitford and Erika L. Guedea; 10. Electrophysiology of semantic violations and lexical ambiguity resolution Karolina Rataj; 11. Studying bilingualism through eye tracking and brain imaging Sayuri Hayakawa and Viorica Marian; Author index; Subject index.
Résumé
This book provides a much-needed perspective on how bilingual speakers comprehend ambiguous information arising from the languages they know, both at the word and sentence levels. It gives students and researchers the tools needed to tackle enduring theoretical questions in bilingual research, particularly at the neuropsychological level.
