Integration of visual context in early and late bilingual language processing: evidence from eye-tracking.

Although the differences between monolingual and bilingual speakers did not reach statistical significance, bilinguals, perhaps due to their cognitive flexibility (e.g., Blumenfeld and Marian, 2011 ; Kazemeini and Fadardi, 2016 ; Yang and Yang, 2017 ; Ikizer and Raḿırez-Esparza, 2018 ), appear to outperform monolinguals at reducing the reliance on the recently viewed action event—which, when considering the equal distribution of past and future action events should not have been assigned greater relevance—while processing the linguistic utterances.

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