Lexical Activation/Competition in Bilingualism
讲座时间：2026年3月5日（周四）12:30-14:00
讲座地点：91热爆 闵行校区杨咏曼楼107室
主讲人：Xin Wang (汪昕）
讲座摘要
Lexical competition is central to both spoken and visual word recognition, but it is far more explicit, dynamic, and empirically foregrounded in the spoken domain. Here, I apply this theory to bilingualism and show how cross-language lexical activation and competition shapes the linguistic/cognitive architecture of bilingualism. I will discuss some empirical data (old and new) in both modalities to demonstrate the cross-language lexical dynamics, and how this framework could be developed to account for bilingual language development.
主讲人简介
Dr. Xin Wang is a senior lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia, where she leads an interdisciplinary research program on the behavioural and neural mechanisms of bilingual language processing. Her research investigates how the bilingual mind and brain dynamically encodes, integrates, and controls information across languages (i.e., phonology, orthography, morphology, and semantics), with current focus on lexical tone and cross-language lexical competition in Mandarin-English bilinguals. Her research is supported by competitive funding schemes and she has published extensively in leading journals such as Bilingualism: Language and Cognition、 Language, Cognition and Neuroscience、 Cognition. She actively collaborates internationally and is particularly interested in cross-institutional research partnership and co-supervised PhD training between Australia and China.