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The Neural Representation of Concepts in Bilinguals: An Evaluation of Factors Influencing Cross-language Overlap Using fMRI-based Multivariate Pattern Analysis
(2023-07-13)
The neurocognitive mechanisms that support the generalization of semantic representations across different languages remain to be determined. Current psycholinguistic models propose that semantic representations are likely ...
Exploring the effects of accent on cognitive processes: behavioral and electrophysiological insights
(2023-09-27)
Previous research has found that speaker accent can have an impact on a range of offline and online cognitive processes (Baus, Bas, Calabria, & Costa, 2017; McAleer, Todorov, & Belin, 2014; Stevenage, Clarke, & McNeill, ...
Dragon Ball on the Basque public TV: influence on viewers’ language attitudes and practices
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-07-01)
Dragon Ball was highly popular among different generations in the Basque Country. The anime TV series was broadcast in Galician, Catalan and Basque practically at the same time in 1990. The translation and dubbing into ...
Basque informal talk increasingly restricted to men: The role of gender in the form of address hika
(DEWS Publication, 2021-03)
Many languages make a T/V distinction when addressing an interlocutor, and Basque also has two main levels of
formality: zuka (formal) and hika (informal). The peculiarity of the Basque informal form of address hika is ...
Neural dynamics underlying object and action naming across languages: Insights from health and disease
(2023-10-30)
Words representing objects (nouns) and words representing actions (verbs) are essential components of speech across languages. Previous studies have shown that the lexico-semantic processing of object and action knowledge ...
Goizueta Basque
(2010-03-15)
Goizueta is a small town in northwestern Navarre, Spain, bordering Gipuzkoa. According to the most recent official figures, it has slightly over 800 inhabitants, about 95% of whom speak Basque (2001, Instituto de Estadística ...
Lexical tone and stress in Goizueta Basque
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Research in the past few decades has shown that Northern Bizkaian Basque possesses a pitch-accent system of the Tokyo Japanese type, with a contrast between lexically accented and unaccented words. There is, however, a ...
Neural and behavioral signatures of language control in highly proficient bilinguals: Evidence from healthy individuals and brain tumor patients
(2023-10-31)
The bilingual population can provide a unique insight into bilingual language processing. One area debated in the literature is how a bilingual brain manages the known languages and what happens when damage occurs. The ...
Lies we don’t say: Figurative language, commitment, and deniability
(Elsevier, 2023-12)
A theory of lies should be able to explain, first, what makes lies special among the variety of deceptive uses of language and, second, why we don't consider figurative speakers to be lying even if they seem to be putting ...
Question particles in Basque
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019)
This article proposes separate analyses for the question particles -a and al in Basque, which occur only in polarity questions, within the framework of Generative Grammar. I will propose that the former one, used in the ...