ABSTRACT
While learning about research on bilingual language comprehension in Chapter 4 you have probably noticed that much of that work was built on the study of monolingual language comprehension: Similar questions were posed and they were tackled using the same tasks and methods, adapted to the bilingual case. This situation also holds for studies on bilingual language production, which have gratefully taken advantage of the large body of knowledge acquired in earlier research on monolingual language production: They pose similar questions about the content and structure of the knowledge base underlying language production, the processing mechanisms involved, the nature of the processes through which stored knowledge is accessed and exploited during language production and the order in which these processes are executed. Furthermore, they often use the same research methods, thereby endorsing their rationale.
