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Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning
(Elsevier, 2022-05-20)
Languages differ in how they mark the dependencies between verbs and arguments, e.g., by case. An eye tracking and EEG picture description study examined the influence of case marking on the time course of sentence planning ...
Seven-month-old infants detect symmetrical structures in multi-featured abstract visual patterns
(Public Library Science, 2022-05-11)
The present study investigated 7-month-old infants' ability to perceive structural symmetry in mosaic-like abstract visual patterns. We examined infants' (n = 98) spontaneous looking behaviour to mosaic-like sequences with ...
Irony-understanding and theory of mind. A conceptual and experimental inquiry from a realist perspective
(2022-11-02)
The main aim of this work is to investigate the prospects for a realist view of irony that take ironic assertions to concern ¿worldly¿states of affairs and individuals ¿just as literal assertions do¿, as opposed to an ...
Agents Strongly Preferred: ERP Evidence from Natives and Non-Natives Processing Intransitive Sentences in Spanish
(MDPI, 2022)
Are non-native speakers able to process their second language in a native-like way? The present study used the Event-Related Potentials’ (ERPs) method to address this issue by focusing (1) on agent vs. agentless intransitive ...
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, ...
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, ...
Language as a cue for social categorization in bilingual communities
(Public Library Science, 2022-11)
This registered report article investigates the role of language as a dimension of social categorization. Our critical aim was to investigate whether categorization based on language occurs even when the languages coexist ...
The literal/non-literal divide synchronically and diachronically: The lexical semantics of an English posture verb
(2022-12-12)
This thesis' main research goal is to provide an account of the English posture verb sit, from a synchronic a diachronic perspective. My proposed account of sit comprises various components, including a characterisation ...
The marking of spatial relations on animate nouns in Basque
(John Benjamins, 2022-03-14)
This corpus-based study examines the diachrony of differential place marking in Basque. In spatial cases, animate nouns in Basque exhibit heavier morphological forms than inanimate ones, but, under some circumstances, they ...
Sibilant mergers in 18th-century Basque: A quantitative study
(Linguistic Society of America, 2022-11-10)
Conservative Basque dialects distinguish apical and laminal alveolar sibilants in the fricative and affricate series. This paper analyses the changes this system was undergoing in the Central Basque variety of San Sebastián ...