TY - INPR A1 - Festman, Julia T1 - The complexity-cost factor in bilingualism T2 - Behavioral and brain sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary N2 - Language processing changes with the knowledge and use of two languages. The advantage of being bilingual comes at the expense of increased processing demands and processing costs. I suggest considering bilingual complexity including these demands and costs. The proposed model claims effortless monolingual processing. By integrating individual and situational variability, the model would lose its idealistic touch, even for monolinguals. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34841 SN - 0140-525X SN - 1469-1825 VL - 36 IS - 4 SP - 355 EP - 356 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - New York ER -