Beyond Segments: Towards a lexical model for tonal bilinguals

当今世界上大多数人都说不止一种语言。因此，他们需要无意识地决定在任何特定时间使用哪种语言。本项目旨在了解健康的成年双语者如何解决来自非预期语言的竞争，从而成功地用预期语言进行交流。在双语语言理解和产出两个方面，该项目将探讨一个未被充分开发的语言维度，词汇音调，在跨语言处理中的作用。预期成果包括加强对双语交流和双语语言使用理论的理解，以及对双语者最佳语言学习的实际影响和对讲两种语言的临床人群的干预。

Most people in the world today speak more than one language. Thus, they need to decide, unconsciously, which language to use at any given time. This project aims to understand how healthy adult bilinguals resolve competition from their unintended language to communicate successfully in the intended language. In both bilingual language comprehension and production, the project will characterise the role of an under-explored linguistic dimension, lexical tone, in cross-language processing. Expected outcomes include enhanced understanding of bilingual communication and theories of bilingual language use, and practical implications for optimal language learning for bilinguals and intervention for clinical populations who speaks two languages.