Lexical stress plays a pivotal role in language processing by influencing how words are segmented, recognised, and accessed in the mental lexicon. Variations in stress patterns, realised through ...

Language matters. When we speak of “a word,” we should mean “a separate meaningful element of speech...used with others to form sentences.” (According to the Oxford Dictionary.) Spoken words are, of ...

Post written by François Grosjean. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have defended over the years a view which proposes that bilinguals are not the sum of two complete or incomplete monolinguals ...