Lexical access in bilingual speech production: Evidence from language switching in highly proficient bilinguals and L2 learners

• Published in: Journal of memory and language Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 491 - 511
• Main Authors: Costa, Albert, Santesteban, Mikel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego, CA Elsevier Inc 01.05.2004; Elsevier
• Subjects: Bilingualism; Bilingualism. Multilingualism; Biological and medical sciences; Catalan; Code Switching; Code Switching (Language); English (Second Language); Experimental Groups; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Korean; Language; Language Dominance; Language Proficiency; Lexical Access; Multivariate Analysis; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Second Language Learning; Spanish; Spanish as a Second Language Learning; Task Analysis; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Human; Language; Bilingualism; Cognition; Verbal production; Experimental study; Lexical access

Five experiments are reported in which the picture naming performance of bilingual speakers in a language-switching task was explored. In Experiment 1, Spanish learners of Catalan and Korean learners of Spanish were asked to perform a switching task between their first and dominant language (L1, Spa...