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The impact of foreign accent on irony interpretation
(PLoS ONE, 2018)
In modern multi-cultural societies, conversations between foreign speakers and native listeners have become very common. These exchanges often include the use of figurative language. The present study examines, for the ...
Is the LAN effect in morphosyntactic processing an ERP artifact?
(Brain and Language, 2019)
The left anterior negativity (LAN) is an ERP component that has been often associated with morphosyntactic processing, but recent reports have questioned whether the LAN effect, in fact, exists. The present project examined ...
Not all errors are the same: ERP sensitivity to error typicality in foreign accented speech perception
(Cortex, 2019)
Intercultural communication has become more and more frequent in the recent globalized
society.When native listeners try to understand non-native speakers, they have to deal with
different types of grammatical errors, ...
Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain
(Brain and Language, 2017)
Language comprehension is sensitive to the predictability of the upcoming information. Prediction allows for smooth, expedient and successful communication. While general discourse-based constraints have been investigated ...
When is irony influenced by communicative constraints? ERP evidence supporting interactive models
(European Journal of Neuroscience, 2019)
Distinct theoretical proposals have described how communicative constraints (contextual
biases, speaker identity) impact verbal irony processing. Modular models assume
that social and contextual factors have an effect ...
Who are you talking to? The role of addressee identity in utterance comprehension
(Psychophysiology, 2020)
Experimental evidence suggests that speaker and addressee quickly adapt to each
other from the earliest moments of sentence processing, and that interlocutor-related
information is rapidly integrated with other sources ...
What usage can do: The effect of language dominance on simultaneous bilinguals’ morphosyntactic processing
(Linguistics Vanguard, 2016)
Even when bilinguals learn both languages from birth and achieve high levels of proficiency, they
rarely use their languages to the same degree. Recent findings suggest that individual differences in bilingual
profile ...
Addressee Identity and Morphosyntactic Processing in Basque Allocutive Agreement
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2017)
Information about interlocutor identity is pragmatic in nature and has traditionally been distinguished from explicitly coded linguistic information, including mophosyntax. Study of speaker identity in language processing ...
Hierarchical levels of representation in language prediction: The influence of first language acquisition in highly proficient bilinguals
(Cognition, 2017)
Language comprehension is largely supported by predictive mechanisms that account for the ease and
speed with which communication unfolds. Both native and proficient non-native speakers can efficiently
handle contextual ...
Word and object recognition during reading acquisition: MEGevidence
(Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017)
Studies on adults suggest that reading-induced brain changes might not be limited to linguistic processes. It is still unclear whether these results can be generalized to reading development. The present study shows to ...