Kalinka Timmer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kalinka Timmer is involved.
Articles
2017 The influence of contextual cues on representations in the mental lexicon for bilinguals Bilingualism: A framework for understanding the mental lexicon, Libben, Maya, Mira Goral and Gary Libben † (eds.), pp. 123–142 | Chapter
The strength of each representation in the mental lexicon depends on factors such as word frequency and conceptual concreteness. For bilinguals, each concept has two lexical representations, and so representational strength also depends on the salience of first- and second-language activation and… read more
2016 Chapter 15. Cognitive mechanisms underlying performance differences between monolinguals and bilinguals Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism, Schwieter, John W. (ed.), pp. 375–396 | Article
Lifelong experience with multiple languages is believed to produce a number of executive function advantages including enhanced top-down control, improved attention, and greater working memory capacity. This bilingual advantage is generally believed to be the result of having multiple lexical… read more