Edited by Mikel Santesteban, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Cristina Baus
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 17] 2023
► pp. 181–204
This chapter aims to acknowledge Prof. Albert Costa’s contribution to the research field of language anticipation in L2 readers/listeners. It starts with a brief introduction to contrasting psycholinguistic models regarding the issue of lexical pre-activation during language comprehension and it describes how the Event Related Potential (ERP) technique advanced the anticipation/integration debate in native (L1) speakers. Then, the first studies looking at lexical anticipation in a second language (L2) with ERPs conducted by Costa’s lab are reported. The following section describes the influence of Costa’s results in the debate on the pre-activation of the phonological form of predictable words, as well as how his original work developed into further work on lexical anticipation in L2 at sentence and discourse levels. Costa’s heritage extended to other linguistic aspects related to L2, like processing foreign-accented speech. The chapter ends with some conclusions and future directions.