Viorica Marian
List of John Benjamins publications in which Viorica Marian is involved.
Book series
2024 Chapter 1. Multilingualism, creativity, and problem-solving Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity, Babatsouli, Elena (ed.), pp. 36–59 | Chapter
The chapter considers how language sparks discovery and innovation by examining creativity and problem-solving through the unique vantage point of multilingualism. The chapter begins with an overview of how creativity and problem-solving are operationalized and measured, followed by a review of… read more
2019 Covert co-activation of bilinguals’ non-target language: Phonological competition from translations Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:2, pp. 228–252 | Article
When listening to spoken language, bilinguals access words in both of their languages at the same time; this co-activation is often driven by phonological input mapping to candidates in multiple languages during online comprehension. Here, we examined whether cross-linguistic activation could… read more
2017 Chapter 7. Auditory word recognition across the lifespan: Links between linguistic and nonlinguistic inhibitory control in bilinguals and monolinguals Growing Old with Two Languages: Effects of Bilingualism on Cognitive Aging, Bialystok, Ellen and Margot D. Sullivan (eds.), pp. 131–159 | Chapter
Recent research suggests that bilingual experience reconfigures linguistic and nonlinguistic cognitive processes. We examined the relationship between linguistic competition resolution and nonlinguistic cognitive control in younger and older adults who were either bilingual or monolingual.… read more
2017 Orthographic and phonological neighborhood databases across multiple languages Orthographic Databases and Lexicons, Cahill, Lynne and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 6–26 | Article
The increased globalization of science and technology and the growing number of bilinguals and multilinguals in the world have made research with multiple languages a mainstay for scholars who study human function and especially those who focus on language, cognition, and the brain. Such… read more
2016 Auditory word recognition across the lifespan: Links between linguistic and nonlinguistic inhibitory control in bilinguals and monolinguals Aging and Bilingualism, Bialystok, Ellen and Margot D. Sullivan (eds.), pp. 119–146 | Article
Recent research suggests that bilingual experience reconfigures linguistic and nonlinguistic cognitive processes. We examined the relationship between linguistic competition resolution and nonlinguistic cognitive control in younger and older adults who were either bilingual or monolingual.… read more
2009 7. Language interaction as a window into bilingual cognitive architecture Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching, Isurin, Ludmila, Donald Winford and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 161–185 | Article
2008 Words, feelings, and bilingualism: Cross-linguistic differences in emotionality of autobiographical memories Emotion words in the monolingual and bilingual lexicon, Altarriba, Jeanette, Aneta Pavlenko and Norman Segalowitz (eds.), pp. 72–91 | Article
Cross-linguistic differences in emotionality of autobiographical memories were examined by eliciting memories of immigration from bilingual speakers. Forty-seven Russian-English bilinguals were asked to recount their immigration experiences in either Russian or English. Bilinguals used more emotion… read more







