Ton Dijkstra

TL;DR: A new model, called the BIA+, is proposed, which extends the old one by adding phonological and semantic lexical representations to the available orthographic ones, and assigns a different role to the so-called language nodes.

TL;DR: The authors investigated how the recognition of target words exclusively belonging to one language is affected by the existence of orthographic neighbors from the same or the other language of bilingual participants, and found that increasing the number of Orthographic Neighbors in Dutch systematically slowed response times to English target words in Dutch/English bilinguals, while an increase in target language neighbors consistently produced inhibitory effects for Dutch and facilitatory effects for English target word.

TL;DR: In this article, Dutch-English bilinguals were tested with English words varying in their degree of orthographic, phonological, and semantic overlap with Dutch words, and the results were interpreted within an interactive activation model for monolingual and bilingual word recognition.

TL;DR: This article investigated the roles of storage and parsing in the visual domain for the productive Dutch plural suffix -en, and found that many noun plurals are stored in order to avoid the time-costly resolution of the subcategorization conflict that arises when the -ensuffix is attached to nouns.

TL;DR: The results indicate that words presented in the dominant language, to naive participants, activate information in the nontarget, and weaker, language in parallel, implying that the multilinguals’ processing system is profoundly nonselective with respect to language.