BIA+ model of bilingual word recognition

BIA+ model of bilingual word recognition

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The question of how bilingual people store linguistic information in their brain has been in the focus of bilingualism research for about 30 years now. Studies have been mushrooming to find out whether languages are stored in a unitary or a separated way. Research first concentrated on bilingual child language development, and first the unitary, la...

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... Heuven and Dijkstra (2010) reviewed the EEG and fMRI evidence for various psycholinguistic models of bilingual word recognition, and found that their BIA+ (Bilingual Interactive Model, Fig. 2.) was supported, i.e. the bilingual lexicon is integrated and words are accessed in a language non-selective manner. ...