The role of learning on bilinguals’ lexical architecture: beyond separated vs. integrated lexicons

Costa, Albert, 1970-; Pickering, Martin

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000809

The role of learning on bilinguals’ lexical architecture: beyond separated vs. integrated lexicons

Citation

Costa A, Pickering MJ. The role of learning on bilinguals’ lexical architecture: beyond separated vs. integrated lexicons. Biling (Camb Engl). 2018 Jul 11:1-2. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728918000809

Abstract

How are the two lexicons of a bilingual represented and how do they interact during language processing? These questions are central to bilingualism and have been the topics of a large number of studies. Dijkstra, Wahl, Buytenhuijs, van Halem, Al-jibouri, De Korte & Rekke (in press) put forward a model that tries to capture people's behavior in several tasks mostly involving reading, with the exception of word translation. A praise-worthy feature of the model is that it is computationally implemented following a local-connectionist architecture. The model is then used to quantitatively account for reaction time patterns on various tasks, with considerable success.