Albert Costa
List of John Benjamins publications in which Albert Costa is involved.
Articles
2021 Language reconfiguration in bilinguals: A study with Huntington’s disease patients Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain, Pliatsikas, Christos, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits (eds.), pp. 459–483 | Article
The present study investigated language inhibition and cross-language interference as two possible mechanisms of bilingual language control (BLC) that can be affected by Huntington’s disease (HD), a neurodegenerative disease (ND) affecting the striatum. To this aim, the study explored the… read more
2016 Chapter 4. Are cognate words “special”? On the role of cognate words in language switching performance Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism, Schwieter, John W. (ed.), pp. 97–126 | Article
One of the most remarkable abilities of bilingual speakers is that of keeping their two languages apart during speech production. Several researchers have argued that the attentional mechanisms responsible for this ability may vary depending on the L2-proficiency achieved by the bilinguals (Green,… read more
2006 Activation of segments, not syllables, during phonological encoding in speech production The Mental Lexicon 1:2, pp. 231–250 | Article
Two experiments are reported that tested whether syllables can be primed in English speech production using a (masked) priming paradigm. In Experiment 1, we presented masked syllable primes for 45 ms. In Experiment 2, primes were presented for either 45 ms or 105 ms under unmasked conditions. In… read more