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  • 2 - Theory Visualizations for Bilingual Models of Lexical Ambiguity Resolution

  • from Part I - Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
  • 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 17-41

  • Summary

    Connectionist models describe the human language system as a high-dimensional state space composed of a neural network in which layers of processing units for different aspects of a linguistic signal (visual or acoustic features, orthography, semantics, etc.) interact with one another. Lexical ambiguity emerges when there is conflicting input within or between processing layers. Bilingual connectionist models, such as the bilingual interactive activation (BIA) and bilingual interactive activation plus (BIA+) models, treat bilingualism as the inclusion of new dimensions into this network, resulting in new opportunities for conflict, such as interlingual homonyms and cognates. We outline connectionist accounts of lexical ambiguity resolution in monolinguals and bilinguals, which we visually depict as movement through a multidimensional state space.