Most previous studies of difficulties in learning a second/foreign language focused on sources learner errors caused by cross-linguistic differences various levels linguistic structure, but most such remain at rather superficial level description. This study explores an abstract studying the nature and activity bilingual mental lexicon during interlanguage production. The is defined as containi...

Speech is considered an efficient communication channel. This implies that the organization of utterances is such that more speaking effort is directed towards important parts than towards redundant parts. Based on a model of incremental word recognition, the importance of a segment is defined as its contribution to word-disambiguation. This importance is measured as the segmental information c...