In:Bilingualism through the Prism of Psycholinguistics: In honour of Albert Costa
Edited by Mikel Santesteban, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Cristina Baus
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 17] 2023
► pp. 181–204
Chapter 6Lexical anticipation in bilinguals
Published online: 1 September 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.17.06mor
https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.17.06mor
Abstract
This chapter aims to acknowledge Prof. Albert
Costa’s contribution to the research field of language anticipation
in L2 readers/listeners. It starts with a brief introduction to
contrasting psycholinguistic models regarding the issue of lexical
pre-activation during language comprehension and it describes how
the Event Related Potential (ERP) technique advanced the
anticipation/integration debate in native (L1) speakers. Then, the
first studies looking at lexical anticipation in a second language
(L2) with ERPs conducted by Costa’s lab are reported. The following
section describes the influence of Costa’s results in the debate on
the pre-activation of the phonological form of predictable words, as
well as how his original work developed into further work on lexical
anticipation in L2 at sentence and discourse levels. Costa’s
heritage extended to other linguistic aspects related to L2, like
processing foreign-accented speech. The chapter ends with some
conclusions and future directions.
Article outline
- Introduction: Lexical anticipation in language comprehension
- Lexical anticipation in a native language (L1) measured with ERPs
- Lexical anticipation in L2: Albert Costa’s pioneering work
- Albert Costa’s contribution to research on prediction: His heritage
- Pre-activation of the phonological form of predictable words: An ongoing debate
- Further work on lexical anticipation in L2
- Anticipation in L2 at the discourse level
- Anticipation and foreign accented speech
- Conclusions and future research directions
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