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Lexical Activation and Competition in Bilingualism

Activity: Talk or presentationInvited talk

Description

Lexical competition is central to both spoken and visual word recognition, but it is far more explicit, dynamic and empirically foregrounded in the spoken domain. Here, I apply this theory to bilingualism and show how cross-language lexical activation and competition shapes the linguistic/cognitive architecture of bilingualism. I will discuss empirical data in both modalities to demonstrate the cross-language lexical dynamics and how this framework could be developed to account for bilingual language development.
Period5 Mar 2026
Held atShanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Degree of RecognitionInternational