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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2018

ALBERT COSTA  and
MARTIN J. PICKERING
ALBERT COSTA*
Affiliation:
ICREA, Barcelona Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
MARTIN J. PICKERING
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh
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Address for correspondence: Albert Costam, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 08018Spain[email protected]
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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.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 2019 , pp. 685 - 686
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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*This article was supported by two grants from the Spanish Government (PSI2011-23033, and PSI2014-52181-P), a grant from the Catalan Government (AGAUR SGR 268), and a grant from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013 Cooperation grant agreement n° 613465 – AThEME)

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