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Bayesian analyses have been increasingly adopted in psychology and linguistics as an addition (or replacement) to traditional frequentist methods. However, Bayesian methods are not yet widely applied in bilingualism research, possibly because existing introductions and tutorials have not been directed specifically at our field. The current paper highlights the advantages of Bayesian statistics to the bilingualism researcher, by providing both an introduction to its foundational principles and a practical tutorial on estimation and hypothesis testing using the R package. The examples build up from simple linear regression to more advanced mixed-effects models and showcase different aspects of a Bayesian workflow. All data, code, models, and supplementary materials are publicly available at https://osf.io/n3jgm/.

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