「Introduction to Psycholinguistics」(Matthew J. Traxer),p422
These results are also compatible with theories of mental representation that propose that lexical representations from the bilingual's two languages share space in long-term memory. That is, rather than being neatly partitioned into "Russian" and "English" bins, that are searched separately when a bilingual is listening to one versus the other language, looking at a picture of a stamp while hearing the word marker, shows that the phonological information is activating representations of meaning based on both phonogy-to-L1 lexicon and phonology-to-L2 lexicon mappings.