Maya Libben

List of John Benjamins publications in which Maya Libben is involved.

Title

Bilingualism: A framework for understanding the mental lexicon

Edited by Maya Libben, Mira Goral and Gary Libben †

In the world today, bilingualism is more common than monolingualism. Thus, the default mental lexicon may in fact be the bilingual lexicon. More than ever, social and technological innovation have created a situation in which lexical knowledge may change dramatically throughout an individual’s… read more

[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 6] 2017. xvii, 252 pp.

Articles

Libben, Maya 2017 Non-selective language activation and bilingualism as the default mental lexicon Bilingualism: A framework for understanding the mental lexicon, Libben, Maya, Mira Goral and Gary Libben † (eds.), pp. 103–122 | Chapter

The current chapter takes the approach that the default mental lexicon is the bilingual mental lexicon. We present a subset of models from the bilingual research literature and argue that such models could be adapted to simultaneously explain multilingual and monolingual language functioning. We… read more

Libben, Maya, Mira Goral and Gary Libben † 2017 The dynamic lexicon: Complex words in bilingual minds Bilingualism: A framework for understanding the mental lexicon, Libben, Maya, Mira Goral and Gary Libben † (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction

Titone, Debra and Maya Libben 2014 Time-dependent effects of decomposability, familiarity and literal plausibility on idiom meaning activation: A cross-modal priming investigation Bridging the Methodological Divide: Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to formulaic language, Wulff, Stefanie and Debra Titone (eds.), pp. 473–496 | Article

We address a core question about idioms relevant to formulaic language generally: are the figurative meanings of idioms directly retrieved or compositionally built? An understanding of this question has been previously obscured by the fact that idioms vary in ways that can affect processing, and… read more