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Marian, Viorica; Spivey, Michael – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2003
Examined the performance of bilingual Russian-English speakers and monolingual English speakers during auditory processing of competing lexical items using eye tracking. Results revealed that both bilinguals and monolinguals experienced competition from English lexical items overlapping phonetically with an English target item. (VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Eye Movements, Interference (Language)

Eviatar, Zohar; Ibrahim, Raphiq – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
Explores the effects of the relationship between exposure to two languages in childhood and metalinguistic abilities. Arabic-speaking children who had been exposed to both spoken and literary Arabic were compared to Russian-Hebrew bilinguals and Hebrew monolinguals. Subjects were kindergarten students; they were tested on language arbitrariness,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Hebrew, Kindergarten Children