Lexical access of bilinguals and multilinguals

Authors

  • Pâmela Freitas Pereira Toassi Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Mailce Borges Mota Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v37i4.25234

Keywords:

multilingualism, , bilingualism

Abstract

This paper presents studies on the lexical access of bilinguals with the aim of extending the assumptions of the bilingual lexicon to the study with multilinguals. For that, studies that investigated the Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM), the Bilingual Interactive Activation (BIA+) model and the models of speech production, on the serial and interactive views, are presented. Two models specifically designed for multilinguals are also presented in this paper: the Multilingual Processing Model and the Dynamic Model of Multilingualism. Based on this review of literature, research questions are raised to the investigation of the models presented with multilinguals.

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Author Biographies

  • Pâmela Freitas Pereira Toassi, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
    Doutoranda do Programa de Pós Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
  • Mailce Borges Mota, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

    Professora do Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras da Universidade Federal de Santa
    Catarina. Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq

Published

2015-10-01

Issue

Section

Linguistics

How to Cite

Toassi, P. F. P., & Mota, M. B. (2015). Lexical access of bilinguals and multilinguals. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 37(4), 393-404. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v37i4.25234