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Modelling bilingual lexical processing: A research agenda and desiderabilia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2018

TON DIJKSTRA ,
ALEXANDER WAHL ,
FRANKA BUYTENHUIJS ,
NINO VAN HALEM ,
ZINA AL-JIBOURI ,
MARCEL DE KORTE  and
STEVEN REKKÉ
TON DIJKSTRA*
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen
ALEXANDER WAHL
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen
FRANKA BUYTENHUIJS
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen
NINO VAN HALEM
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen
ZINA AL-JIBOURI
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen
MARCEL DE KORTE
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen
STEVEN REKKÉ
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen
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Address for correspondence: Ton Dijkstra, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Donders Centre for Cognition, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR Nijmegen, The Netherlandst.dijkstra@donders.ru.nl
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Like the BIA model (Dijkstra & van Heuven, 1998; van Heuven, Dijkstra & Grainger, 1998) and the BIA+ model (Dijkstra & van Heuven, 2002), the Multilink model is a symbolic, localist-connectionist, interactive model for lexical processing in the visual domain. In our view, the symbolic nature of Multilink makes it attractive and easily interpretable, even in relation to brain activity (Page, 2000, p. 501; 2017). Symbolic localist-connectionist models have a long tradition and have been applied to many different areas of cognitive research (e.g., Grainger & Jacobs, 1998). As a consequence, a lot is known about their properties and limitations (e.g., Bowers, 2009). These models can also easily be organized hierarchically in a cognitive functional way, and they have a reasonable degree of flexibility while still being falsifiable. Thus, despite the availability of other sophisticated frameworks for modeling language processes, a lot can still be gained from localist models.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 2019 , pp. 703 - 713
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The authors thank Aaron van Geffen, Randi Goertz, Erik Lormans, and Ardi Roelofs for valuable theoretical discussions and/or help in simulations. They also thank Eva van Assche, Nicolas Dirix, Wouter Duyck, and Annette De Groot for kindly making available empirical data for simulation purposes.

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