TY - JOUR
T1 - The Revised Hierarchical Model
T2 - A critical review and assessment
AU - Kroll, Judith F.
AU - Van Hell, Janet G.
AU - Tokowicz, Natasha
AU - Green, David W.
N1 - Funding Information:
* The writing of this article was supported by NIH Grant R01-HD053146 to Judith F. Kroll and by NSF grant BCS 0745372 to Natasha Tokowicz. We thank Dorothee Chwilla, Eleonora Rossi and Jorge Valdes for helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. Portions of the paper were presented as part of a symposium at the Seventh International Symposium on Bilingualism in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July, 2009.
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1017/S136672891000009X
DO - 10.1017/S136672891000009X
M3 - Review article
C2 - 20676387
AN - SCOPUS:77957993935
VL - 13
SP - 373
EP - 381
JO - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
JF - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
SN - 1366-7289
IS - 3
ER -