Language representation and processes in bilingual memory

The presented work in this dissertation focusses on different kinds of representations in bilingual memory, using the priming method as a promising tool to investigate cross-linguistic interactions. The first two empirical chapters (Chapter 2 and 3) mainly investigate semantic representations across languages, but also investigate how a word’s lexical representation in the first or the second language (in this case, its orthographic code in the lexicon) accesses its/their meaning. Chapter 2 will solely rely on behavioral measures of bilingual word recognition, whereas in Chapter 3 also electrophysiological measures will be included. The third empirical chapter (Chapter 4) has its main focus on how syntactic structures are represented across languages. In this last chapter, we also explored if and how lexical and syntactic representations interact across languages, in bilingual dialogue