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| Title: | The Revised Hierarchical Model: A critical review and assessment |
| Author: | Judith F. Kroll |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | Pennsylvania State University |
| Author: | Janet G van Hell |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | Pennsylvania State University |
| Author: | Natasha Tokowicz |
| Institution: | University of Pittsburgh |
| Author: | David W Green |
| Institution: | University College London |
| Linguistic Field: | Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics |
| Abstract: | Brysbaert and Duyck (this issue) suggest that it is time to abandon the Revised Hierarchical Model (Kroll and Stewart, 1994) in favor of connectionist models such as BIA+ (Dijkstra and Van Heuven, 2002) that more accurately account for the recent evidence on non-selective access in bilingual word recognition. In this brief response, we first review the history of the Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM), consider the set of issues that it was proposed to address and then evaluate the evidence that supports and fails to support the initial claims of the model. Although fifteen years of new research findings require a number of revisions to the RHM, we argue that the central issues to which the model was addressed, the way in which new lexical forms are mapped to meaning and the consequence of language learning history for lexical processing, cannot be accounted for solely within models of word recognition. |
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This article appears in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Vol. 13, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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