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Bilinguals processing noun morphology: Evidence for the Language Distance Hypothesis from event-related potentials
(Pergamon-Elsevier, 2020-08)
Evidence shows that second language (L2) processing depends on the Age of Acquisition (AoA), proficiency and differences between L1 and L2 grammar. Here we focus on the influence of the latter factor on L2 processing. To ...
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 ...
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 ...