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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 ...
Neural correlates of bilingual reading: Effects of orthographic depth and age of acquisition of a second language in brain function and structure
(2016-12-05)
El lenguaje forma parte de la esencia del ser humano. Es nuestra herramienta más poderosa para comunicarnos, para compartir nuestro conocimiento, sentimientos y emociones. La comunicación permite tanto nuestro desarrollo ...
Euskal ondare kulturalaren moldatzea (1960-1990), egungo kultur sistemaren oinarri. Baliabide eta forma sinbolikoak
(2015-06-05)
Euskal Kultur Sistema (EKS) eta Euskal Literatur Sistema (ELS) garaikideen oinarriak 1960-1990 bitartean, euskal komunitatearen garapenarekiko mendekotasunean, ondu ote ziren ikertu dugu. Hala, bada, hogeita hamar urte ...
Alemanetik euskaratutako haur- eta gazte-literatura: zuzeneko nahiz zeharkako itzulpenen azterketa corpus baten bidez
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateko Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2014-05-12)
Tesiak alemanetik euskaratutako haur- eta gazte-literatura du aztergai, beraz, bi ikergai batzen dira: haur- eta gazte-literatura generoa, batetik eta, alemana/euskara hizkuntza-konbinazioa, bestetik. Arreta berezia eskaini ...
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 ...
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, ...