R
Roberto R. Heredia
Researcher at Texas A&M International University
Publications - 48
Citations - 1218
Roberto R. Heredia is an academic researcher from Texas A&M International University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literal and figurative language & Bilingual memory. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 48 publications receiving 1106 citations. Previous affiliations of Roberto R. Heredia include University of California, Santa Cruz & Texas A&M University.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Bilingual Language Mixing: Why Do Bilinguals Code-Switch?:
TL;DR: The authors explored the potential theoretical explanations for this language behavior, the costs and benefits associated with language switching, and the role of language dominance in the direction of the switch, and concluded that code switching follows functional and grammatical principles and is a complex, rule-governed phenomenon.
Journal ArticleDOI
Bimodal speech perception: an examination across languages
TL;DR: The authors examined whether language and culture influence speech perception in face-to-face communication and found that identification of the speech segments was influenced by both auditory and visual sources of information for all language groups.
Book
Bilingual sentence processing
TL;DR: The Connectionist Models of Second Language Processing and Bilingualism as discussed by the authors have been used in Bilingual Research for language skill development in bilingual children, and they have been shown to be useful in the development of children's language skills.
Journal ArticleDOI
Bilingual Memory and Hierarchical Models: A Case for Language Dominance
TL;DR: The authors consider the problem of how bilinguals organize their two languages in memory and provide a review of current models of bi-lingual memory in real-time and what mecha nisms and processes are involved during word retrieval and language processing.