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| | Robert M. French homepage |
 | | Each word in a particular language whether it is spoken or heard, activates a halo of other words -- virtually all of which are in the same language -- and, as a result, it requires no particular intentional effort for a bilingual to remain in that language. |
 | | The BIA+ is, as the name implies, an extension of the Bilingual Interactive Activation (BIA) model (Dijkstra and van Heuven, 1998; Van Heuven, Dijkstra and Grainger, 1998; etc), which was itself an adaptation to bilingual memory of McClelland and Rumelhart’s (1981) Interactive Activation model of monolingual memory. |
 | | While their model is based on clearly defined and potentially far-reaching theoretical principles, it nonetheless suffers from certain shortcomings, among them, the use of misleading dependent measures and the incapacity of the network to develop its own internal representations. |
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