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  • 9 - Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Bilingual Lexical Ambiguity

  • from Part IV - Neuroscience of Bilingual Lexical Access
  • Edited by Roberto R. Heredia, Texas A & M University, Anna B. Cieślicka, Texas A & M University
  • Book:
    Bilingual Lexical Ambiguity Resolution
    Published online:
    24 December 2019
    Print publication:
    02 January 2020, pp 231-249

  • Summary

    This chapter elucidates the behavioral and neural underpinnings of bilingual lexical ambiguity processing during both first language (L1) and second language (L2) reading. It provides an overview of the eye-tracking and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research on bilingual nonselective lexical access, as assessed through cognates, interlingual homographs, and cross-language orthographic neighbors (i.e., words that are lexically ambiguous across languages). Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates that eye movement patterns vary as a function of the nature and amount of cross-language overlap, as well as individual differences in L2 background and executive control capacity. It also demonstrates that left hemisphere brain regions implicated in executive functions (e.g., inferior frontal gyrus, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia) are also implicated in resolving cross-language lexical ambiguity.