ABSTRACT
In a previous chapter on mixed language processing in bilinguals (Grosjean & Soares, 1986), we stated that psycholinguistic models of language processing in bilinguals have to account for the perception and production of language in the bilingual's different language modes: the monolingual mode, that is, when the bilingual is communicating with a person who only knows one of the bilingual's languages; and the bilingual mode, that is, when the interlocutors share two or more languages, and language mixing is taking place between them. Such a model has to describe the ways in which bilinguals in the monolingual mode differ from monolinguals in terms of perception and production processes, and it has to explain the actual interaction of the two (or more) languages during processing in the bilingual mode.
