ABSTRACT

Part Three of the Reader focuses on the psycholinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It consists of two sections: The bilingual brain and Bilingual speech processing.

The bilingual brain

One of the most controversial and most discussed issues in the psycholinguistic studies of bilingualism has been the notion that the languages of bilingual speakers are less asymmetrically represented in the cerebral hemispheres than the language of unilingual speakers. The first two papers in this part address this issue.