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Length of Utterance, in Morphemes or in Words?: MLU3-w, a Reliable Measure of Language Development in Early Basque
(Frontiers Media, 2017-01-08)
The mean length of utterace (MLU), which was proposed by Brown (1973) as a better index for language development in children than age, has been regularly reported in case studies as well as in cross-sectional studies on ...
Reversing the Approach to Null Subjects: A Perspective from Language Acquisition
(Frontiers Media, 2017-01-14)
This paper proposes a new model for null subjects, and focuses on its implications for language development. The literature on pro-drop generally considers that not allowing null subjects is, informally speaking, the ...
Bilingual education searching for promising didactic proposals
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-12-05)
The role of syllables in sign language production
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-11-13)
The aim of the present study was to investigate the functional role of syllables in sign language and how the different phonological combinations influence sign production. Moreover, the influence of age of acquisition was ...
What Can the Brain Teach Us about Winemaking? An fMRI Study of Alcohol Level Preferences
(Public Library Science, 2015-03-18)
Over the last few decades, wine makers have been producing wines with a higher alcohol content, assuming that they are more appreciated by consumers. To test this hypothesis, we used functional magnetic imaging to compare ...
Discriminating languages in bilingual contexts: the impact of orthographic markedness
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-05-13)
Does language-specific orthography help language detection and lexical access in naturalistic bilingual contexts? This study investigates how L2 orthotactic properties influence bilingual language detection in bilingual ...
Negative Transfer Effects on L2 Word Order Processing
(Frontiers Media SA, 2018-03-14)
Does first language (L1) word order affect the processing of non-canonical but grammatical syntactic structures in second language (L2) comprehension? In the present study, we test whether L1-Spanish speakers of L2-Basque ...
The activity view of inner speech
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015-03-09)
We distinguish two general approaches to inner speech (IS) the "format" and the "activity" views and defend the activity view. The format view grounds the utility of IS on features of the representational format of language, ...
A descriptive analysis of Basque hypocoristics
(Nafarroako Gobernua / Gobierno de Navarra, 2014-06-30)
This paper aims at providing a description of the means available nowadays for hypocoristization in Basque, although it is not our intention
to limit our investigation to present-day pet names. We have considered it
relevant ...
On The Nature Of Clitics And Their Sensitivity To Number Attraction Effects
(Frontiers Media SA, 2017-09-05)
Pronominal dependencies have been shown to be more resilient to attraction effects than subject-verb agreement. We use this phenomenon to investigate whether antecedent-clitic dependencies in Spanish are computed like ...