A review of the theories of lexical access and storage in bilinguals

Knowledge of two languages has several psychological and linguistic consequences for bilingual speakers. Some of them have been widely explored, such as lexical storage or phonological transfer between languages, whereas others, related to the impact of the languages in higher cognitive processes, h...

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Autor: Ferrer-Xipell, R. (Roser)|||/items/fab50c13-f41d-427c-9854-d2095f686dd7
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/63229
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/63229
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Materias Investigacion::Educación
Lexical access
Lexical storage
Bilingualism
Review
Acceso léxico
Almacenamiento léxico
Bilingüismo
Revisión
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Sumario:Knowledge of two languages has several psychological and linguistic consequences for bilingual speakers. Some of them have been widely explored, such as lexical storage or phonological transfer between languages, whereas others, related to the impact of the languages in higher cognitive processes, have been barely studied. In this article, a review of the theories of lexical storage and lexical access of the bilingual speaker is presented. This review emphasises the evolution of the research methodologies through time, and how they have affected the construction and testing of theoretical proposals. With this paper, we intend to set the basis for deeper insights into bilingualism and its psycholinguistic features.