“…(2), continuous interaction of L1 and L2 which leads to linguistic transfer from L2 to L1 (Malt, Li, Pavlenko, Zhu, & Ameel, 2015;Pavlenko & Malt, 2011;Runnqvist, Gollan, Costa, & Ferreira, 2013); (3) the need to constantly control and monitor two languages (Green, 1998;Kroll, Bobb, Misra, & Guo, 2008). Recent neuroimaging evidence also suggests that L1 is more permeable than previously thought, in the sense that after L2 is acquired, it is possible for L1 processing to evoke either stronger (Jones et al, 2011;Mei et al, 2015) or weaker (Mei et al, 2014) activation than before.…”