I am a cognitive psychologist interested in language. My research examines language processing (speaking and reading) in both native speakers and non-native speakers of a language and at varying levels of proficiency (bilinguals). One major focus is how we recognize words formed from several meaningful units or morphemes such as MIS+UNDERSTAND+ABLE. Questions include whether morphology is more than just conjoint effects of shared meaning and shared form and whether word recognition in one's native language varies across languages depending on their particular structure. To address these two questions, I have examined processing in English and Serbian and demonstrated that meaning as well as form play a role, even very early effect in the course of processing.