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Contrastive focus reduplication and the modification puzzle
(Ubiquity Press, 2020-05-14)
In this short paper we present a so far unnoticed syntactic constraint on contrastive focus-reduplication (CR), a phenomenon that restricts the semantics of the reduplicated element to a prototypical meaning (but has other ...
Information-Seeking Question Intonation in Basque Spanish and Its Correlation with Degree of Contact and Language Attitudes
(MDPI, 2020-12-14)
The present study analyzes the prosodic characteristics of the variety of Spanish in contact with Basque (in the Basque Country, Spain). We focus on information-seeking yes/no questions, which present different intonation ...
The Role of Inner Speech in Executive Functioning Tasks: Schizophrenia with Auditory Verbal Hallucinations and Autistic Spectrum Conditions as Case Studies
(Frontiers Media, 2020-09-17)
Several theories propose that one of the core functions of inner speech (IS) is to support subjects in the completion of cognitively effortful tasks, especially those involving executive functions (EF). In this paper we ...
ERP indexes of number attraction and word order during correct verb agreement production
(Elsevier, 2020-06-23)
[EN] Successful subject-verb agreement production requires retrieving the verbal forms that agree with the features of the subject head noun and not of other nouns in the sentence. We investigate, for the first time, the ...
Dimensions of social categorization: inside the role of language
(Public Library of Science, 2021-07-12)
[EN] The present pre-registration aims to investigate the role of language as a dimension of social
categorization. Our critical aim is to investigate whether language can be used as a dimension
of social categorization ...
The Multilingual Picture Database
(Nature, 2022)
The growing interdisciplinary research field of psycholinguistics is in constant need of new and up-to-date tools which will allow researchers to answer complex questions, but also expand on languages other than English, ...
What does it take to be rigid? Reflections on the notion of rigidity in autism
(Frontiers Media, 2023-02)
Characterizations of autism include multiple references to rigid or inflexible features, but the notion of rigidity itself has received little systematic discussion. In this paper we shed some light on the notion of rigidity ...
Reproducibility of infant fNIRS studies: a meta-analytic approach
(SPIE, 2023-04)
Significance
Concerns about the reproducibility of experimental findings have recently emerged in many disciplines, from psychology to medicine and neuroscience. As NIRS is a relatively recent brain imaging technique, the ...
A history of the Basque prosodic systems
(John Benjamins, 2023-02)
This paper presents new proposals for the reconstruction of Proto-Basque accentuation, as well as the development and chronology of the main accentual systems of the modern dialects, grounded in phonetic, historical and ...
Emotional Attractors in Subject-Verb Number Agreement
(Frontiers Media, 2022-06)
Considering the crosstalk between brain networks that contain linguistic and emotional information and that no studies have examined the impact of semantic information of affective nature on subject-verb number agreement, ...