The Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task in Tunisian Arabic: Adaptation and Pilot Evidence from Monolingual Children.

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The Arabic Lexicon Project: Lexical decision data for 10,000 Modern Standard Arabic words

The current study developed, validated, and illustrated the advantage of a lexical decision database for MSA in three (virtual) experiments, and showed that the database largely replicates well-documented effects in visual word recognition (lexicality, word length, word frequency, word neighborhood size).

Linguistic frame switching in German–English bilinguals: implications for neuroscience

Introduction: Multilingual speakers frequently report that operating in a different language involves more than a change in grammatical system. The phenomenon at issue is linguistic frame switching (LFS): the involuntary reorganisation of cognitive, emotional, and identity-relevant schemas when a multilingual speaker m...

The power of adaptation: Multilingual localisation of extIPA for clinical phonetics and cross-linguistic speech assessment.

The Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet (extIPA) support clinical transcription of atypical and disordered speech, but their chart metalanguage is primarily available in English. This article presents a feasibility study of multilingual extIPA localisation as clinical phonetic infrastructure rather than a...

Cross-Linguistic Interference from Spanish to French in Learners' Writing Productions

This study examines linguistic interference from Spanish to French in the written productions of fifth-semester students enrolled in the Foreign Languages Program at the University of Cartagena. The research aimed to identify and categorize the most common instances of cross-linguistic influence present in learners' wr...

Comparative Study of Lexical Availability in a Bilingual Context: English-Dominant versus Spanish Heritage Speakers

Lexical availability (LA) refers to the subset of the mental lexicon that speakers readily activate in response to specific thematic prompts. It reflects the accessibility of lexical knowledge and is commonly characterized by the degree of lexical consensus observed across members of a speech community. This study...