Cross-language psycholinguistics

Abstract

Cross-linguistic research can be of valaue to psycholinguistics by allowing tests of hypotheses the testing of which would be severely confounded in a single language, and by providing simple and readily available control conditions. For a long time the resources of this kind of research were virtually ignored by psycholinguists; recent renewal of the relationship between psychology and linguistics, however, has led to a revival of cross-language psycholinguistics.