The expression and interpretation of emotions is closely related to specific characteristics of language and culture. Language provides a set of means to express emotions verbally. Culture influences how emotions are ...

Many studies have been done in the domain of bilingual word recognition. One important issue is whether bilinguals who read consider words from both their lexicons at the same time, or only one of them. This issue has been ...

The word learning performance of monolinguals and early and late bilinguals was simulated using the Bilingual Interactive Activation (BIA) model by Dijkstra and Van Heuven (2002), a model for visual word recognition. ...

Many idiomatic expressions are ambiguous, as they consist of a sequence of words that can be interpreted both figuratively and literally (e.g., kick the bucket). These expressions can be disambiguated by using discourse ...

In the field of language, word translation is a particular interesting process that comprises multiple complex processes such as word recognition, meaning retrieval and word production. To learn the underlying processes ...

If learners of a second language aspire to acquiring native-like proficiency, the usage and understanding of idiomatic language, such as De inbreker liep tegen de lamp (in English, “The burglar walked against the lamp”, ...

This study examined how acquisition of novel words from another language (L2) is influenced by orthographic similarity with existing native language (L1) words in beginning adult learners. Native speakers of English ...

The effects of subtitling language in second language acquisition from television were examined, in the context of a learning task with subtitled spoken words in Indonesian supported by pictures. Indonesian, or L2, subtitling ...

In this paper, a new model of multilingual processing, called Multilink model, is developed that can account for cognate processing, bilingual semantic priming, and word translation. To provide a theoretical background, ...

In this thesis, it is described how the Multilink model for word translation (Dijkstra & Rekké, 2010) was altered in an attempt to better account for lexical effects found in empirical linguistic data, such as cognate ...