On the temporal delay assumption and the impact of non-linguistic context effects

Marc Brysbaert, Ilse Van Wijnendaele, Duyck Wouter

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Abstract

It is not easy to comment on Dijkstra and Van Heuven's model because there are many more aspects we agree with than aspects we feel uncomfortable about. Indeed, the BIA model has played an enormous role in showing us how bilingual visual word recognition can be achieved without recurrence to the intuitively appealing – but wrong – ideas of separate, language-specific lexicons and language-selective access. As in many other research areas, a working computational model has been much more influential in convincing critical readers (and researchers) than any series of empirical findings. The BIA+ model inherits this strength and, hopefully, in the coming years will be implemented in enough detail to exceed its predecessor. In the rest of this comment, we would like to put a cautionary note behind the temporal delay assumption introduced in the target article and provide some additional corroborating evidence for the lack of non-linguistic effects on early processes in the identification system.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)199-201
JournalBilingualism: language and cognition
Volume5
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2002

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