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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 ...
Infants differentially extract rules from language
(Nature Research, 2021-10-08)
[EN]Infants readily extract linguistic rules from speech. Here, we ask whether this advantage extends to linguistic stimuli that do not rely on the spoken modality. To address this question, we first examine whether infants ...
Learning word order: early beginnings
(Elsevier, 2021-09)
We examine the beginning of the acquisition of the relative order of function and content words, a fundamental but cross-linguistically highly variable aspect of grammar. A review of the existing empirical literature shows ...
Dealing with Functional Diversity in EFL Classrooms: English Teachers’ Positioning
(Facultad de Ciencias y Educación de la Universidad Distrital, Bogotá Colombia, 2021-06)
Abstract Functional Diversity (FD) and inclusion are nowadays widely explored subjects, specifically in the field of English language teaching. This article examines the ways in which EFL teachers problematize their role ...
Infants' Perception of Repetition-Based Regularities in Speech: a Look from the Perspective of the Same/Different Distinction
(Elsevier, 2021-02)
We review the existing evidence, behavioral and neural, of infants' ability to encode repetition- ('same') and diversity-('different') based regularities in speech. These studies show that, from birth, infants exhibit a ...
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 ...
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)