Lexical acquisition in bilingual contexts: aspects of (extra)linguistic and psycholinguistic modeling

The overall research goals of this bilateral action have been to focus on cognitive and extra-linguistic factors involved in bilingual word recognition, with a view to exploring implications, requirements and constraints on computational models of bilingual acquisition. In particular, the cross visits intended to investigate linguistic, extra-linguistic and psycholinguistic issues which are generally assumed to have a bearing on aspects of bilingual lexicon acquisition and word processing, with a view to better understanding their role and dynamic relationship with aspects more closely related to the language-specific input.