Bilingual lexicon

With the amount of bilinguals increasing worldwide, psycholinguists have begun to look at how the brain represents multiple languages. The mental lexicon is a focus of research on differences between monolingual and multilingual brains.

Research during past decades shows that bilingual brains have special neural connections.[1] Whether said connections constitute a distinct bilingual brain structure is still under study. The mode of basic lexical representations of bilingualism has also been debated.

  1. ^ Kim, K. S., & Relkin, N. R. (1997). "Distinct cortical areas associated with native and second languages". Nature, 388(6638), 171.