The Multilingual Lab

 Journal Publications

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1. Norman, T., Prior, A., & Degani, T. (2025). Contribution of prior linguistic knowledge to L3 phonological perception and production. Journal of Memory and Language, 141.  DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2024.104600

2. Schmidtke, J.,Bsharat-Maalouf, D., Degani, T., & Karawani, H. (2025). How lexical frequency, language dominance and noise affect listening effort – Insights from pupillometry. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 40(2), 195-208. DOI:10.1080/23273798.2024.2427832

3. Elias, M., Van Hell, J., Prior, A., & Degani, T. (in press). Cognate facilitation in different-script trilinguals as a function of task demands. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition

4. Norman, T., Eviatar, Z., & Degani, T. (2024). The influence of complete and partial L1 shared translation on L2 semantic processing of word meaning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 50 (12), 2008-2029. DOI:10.1037/xlm0001376

5. Degani, T. (2024). Multilingual diagnosis: Intra-individual variability as a key feature. (~pp. 1-27) Dash Bareshet (in Hebrew).

6. Degani, T., Kreiner, H., & Declerck, M. (in press). L1 production following brief L2 exposure: Evidence for cross-talk across comprehension and production (~pp. 1-36). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. DOI:10.3758/s13423-024-02572-7.

7. Bsharat-Maalouf, D., Schmidtke, J., Degani, T., & Karawani, H. (2025). Through the pupils’ lens: Multilingual effort in first and second language listening. Ear and Hearing, 46(2), 494-511.

8. Bsharat-Maalouf, D., Degani, T., & Karawani, H. (2023). The Involvement of listening effort in explaining bilingual listening under adverse listening conditions. Trends in Hearing, 27, 1-19. DOI: 10.1177/23312165231205107

9. Norman, T., & Degani, T., (2024). Context effects in the L2: Evidence for compensatory mechanisms. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(3), 279-315.

10. Degani, T., Yagev Bar-David, O., & Levy-Adam, L., (2023). Does brief exposure to a written text affect spelling performance in a second language? Reading and Writing, 36, 1901-1935. DOI:10.1007/s11145-022-10349-4

11. Oz-Vecht, E., & Degani, T., (2023). Bilingual phonological awareness as a function of language proficiency. International Journal of Bilingualism., 27(5), 663-697. DOI:10.1177/13670069221104671

12.  Degani, T., Prior, A., & Wodniecka, Z. (2022). Modulators of cross-language influences in learning and processing. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.898793

13. Barak, L., Degani, T. , & Novogrodsky, R. (2022). Influences of bilingualism and Developmental Language Disorder on how children learn and process words. Developmental Psychology (~pp. 1-37). DOI: 10.1037/dev0001324

14.  Elias, M., & Degani, T. (2022). Cross-language interactions during novel word learning: The contribution of form similarity and participant characteristics. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–18. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728921000857

15. Rozen-Blay, O., Novogrodsky, R., & Degani, T., (2022). Talking while Signing: The Influence of Simultaneous Communication on the Spoken Language of Bimodal-Bilinguals. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (~pp. 1-22). DOI: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00326

16. Abbas, N., Degani, T., & Prior, A. (2021). Equal opportunity interference: Both L1 and L2 influence L3 morpho-syntactic processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:673535. DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.673535

17.  Hirosh, Z., & Degani, T., (2021). Novel Word Learning Among Bilinguals Can Be Better Through the (Dominant) First Language Than Through the Second Language. Language Learning, 71 (4), 1044-1084. DOI:10.1111/lang.12457

18. Degani, T., Kreiner, H., Ataria, H. & Khateeb, F. (2020). The impact of brief exposure to the second language on native language production: Global or item specific? Applied Psycholinguistics, 41, 153-183. DOI: 10.1017/S0142716419000444       

19. Peleg, O., Degani, T., Raziq, M., & Taha, N. (2020). Cross-lingual phonological effects in bilingual visual word recognition: Evidence from Arabic-Hebrew bilinguals. Second Language Research, 36(4), 653-690. DOI: 10.1177/0267658319827052

20. Degani, T., & Goldberg, M. (2019). How individual differences affect learning of translation-ambiguous vocabulary? Language Learning, 69(3), 600-651. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12344

21. Degani, T., Kreiser, V., & Novogrodsky, R., (2019). The joint effects of bilingualism, DLD and item-frequency on children’s lexical retrieval performance. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 54, 485-498.  DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.12454

22. Hirosh, Z., & Degani, T. (2018). Direct and indirect effects of multilingualism on novel language learning: An integrative review. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 892-916. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-017-1315-7

23. Degani, T., Prior, A., & Hajajra, W. (2018). Cross-language semantic influences in different-script bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21, 782-804. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728917000311

24. Norman, T., Degani, T., & Peleg, O. (2017).  Morphological processing in visual word recognition in Hebrew as a first and a second language. Reading and Writing, 30, 69-85. DOI:10.1007/s11145-016-9663-7

25. Prior, A., Degani, T., Awawdy, S., Yassin, R., & Korem, N. (2017). Is susceptibility to cross-language interference domain specific? Cognition, 165, 10-25.​ DOI:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.04.006

26. Bracken, J., Degani, T., Eddington, C. & Tokowicz, N. (2017). Translation semantic variability: How semantic relatedness affects learning of translation ambiguous words. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 783-794. ​DOI: 10.1017/S1366728916000274

27. Degani, T., Prior, A., Eddington, C.M., Âreas Da Luz Fontes, A.B., & Tokowicz, N (2016). Determinants of translation ambiguity: A within and cross-language comparison. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6, 290-307. DOI: 10.1075/lab.14013.deg

28. Norman, T., Degani, T., & Peleg, O. (2016). Transfer of L1 visual word recognition strategies during early stages of L2 learning. Second Language Research, 32, 109-122. DOI: 10.1177/0267658315608913

29. Kreiner, H., & Degani, T., (2015). Tip-of-the-tongue in a second language: The effects of brief first-language exposure and long-term use. Cognition, 137, 106- 14.  DOI:10.1016/j.cognition.2014.12.011

30. Degani., T., Tseng, A. , & Tokowicz, N. (2014). Together or apart? Learning of translation ambiguous words. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17, 749-765. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000837

31. Degani T., & Tokowicz, N. (2013). Cross-language influences: translation status affects intraword sense relatedness. Memory & Cognition, 41, 1046-1064. DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0322-9

32. Degani, T., Prior, A., & Tokowicz, N. (2011). Bidirectional transfer: The effect of sharing a translation. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 18-28. DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2011.445986

33. Michael, E. B., Tokowicz, N., Degani, T. & Smith, C. J. (2011). Individual differences in the ability to resolve translation ambiguity across languages. Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 8, 79-97. 

34. Degani, T., & Tokowicz, N. (2010a). Ambiguous words are harder to learn. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 13, 299-314. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728909990411 [Editor’s pick of recent influential articles from BLC, June 2011]

35. Degani, T., & Tokowicz, N. (2010b). Semantic ambiguity within and across languages: An integrative review. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1266-1303. DOI: 10.1080/17470210903377372

Additional Publications

1. Kroll, J. F., & Degani, T. (accepted). Diversity in multilingual learners: How variation in learners and contexts for learning shape the acquisition and processing of an L3/Ln. In J. Cabrelli, A. Chaouch-Orozco, J. González Alonso, S. M Pereira Soares, E. Puig-Mayenco, & J. Rothman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition and Processing (chap. 19). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

2. Tokowicz, N., & Degani, T. (2021). Design challenges: Development of bilingual materials and making appropriate comparisons. In W. Francis (Ed.), Bilingualism across the lifespan: Opportunities and challenges for cognitive research in a global society. Routledge. (chap. 17, 17 pages).

3. Tokowicz, N. & Degani, T. (2015). Learning second language vocabulary: Insights from laboratory studies. In John John W. Schwieter (Ed.) The Cambridge handbook of bilingual processing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

4. Tokowicz, N. & Degani, T. (2013). Lexical concepts. P. Robinson (Ed.) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition. New York/London: Routledge.

5. Tokowicz, N., & Degani, T. (2010). Translation ambiguity: Consequences for learning and processing. In B. VanPatten & J. Jegerski (Eds.), Research on second language processing and parsing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.​