Leivada, EvelinaRodríguez-Ordóñez, ItxasoParafita Couto, M. CarmenPerpiñán, Sílvia2023-02-272023-02-272022Leivada E, Rodríguez-Ordóñez I, Parafita Couto MC, Perpiñán S. Bilingualism with minority languages: why searching for unicorn language users does not move us forward. Appl Psycholinguist. 2023.16 p. DOI:10.1017/S01427164230000360142-7164http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55932Data de publicació electrònica: 19 de desembre de 2022This paper addresses several problematic scientific practices in psycholinguistic research. We discuss challenges that arise when working with minority languages, such as the notion of monolingual/monocultural normality and its historical origins, the stereotype of nativespeakerism, the quest for testing people who fit specific profiles, the implications of the policy that urges scholars to match bilingual groups to monolingual comparison groups, and the use of powerful theoretical narratives that may evoke problematic labels and ableist terminology. These issues invest the field of psycholinguistics with questionable practices that contribute to the marginalization of groups that do not tick the standard normative boxes. Surveying some of the most widespread scientific practices in the field of psycholinguistics, our emphasis is on how several processes and policies may embody stereotypes that contribute to the exclusion of certain groups from the scientific literature, with grievous consequences for the visibility and the representation of some minoritized languages.application/pdfeng© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000036BilingualismMinority languagesNative-speakerismControl groupMonolingual-biasinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess