Bilingual Lexical Ambiguity Resolution

Cambridge University Press
Edition: New, 1/2/2020
EAN 9781107145610, ISBN10: 1107145619

Hardcover, 342 pages, 23.1 x 15.7 x 2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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.

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. Cieślicka
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. Cieślicka 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.