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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Indigenous Language Revitalization in British Columbia: Yuneŝit’in strategies for Nenqayni ch’ih or the Tŝilhqot’in language
(2021-07-07)
Nenqayni ch'ih edo Tîlhqot'in hizkuntza Dene (Atabaskera) familiako mintzaira bat da eta Kanadako Columbia Britaniarreko barnealdean hitz egiten da. Probintziako hizkuntza indigenen artean bizitasun mailarik handiena du, ...
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, ...
The acquisition of Tense and Aspect in Spanish
(2015-11-09)
En esta tesis doctoral se investiga la adquisición de las marcas de aspecto y tiempo por parte de niños de 5 años (madrileños y navarros) que adquieren el español como lengua materna. Para su realización se han analizado, ...
A descriptive analysis of Basque hypocoristics
(Nafarroako Gobernua / Gobierno de Navarra, 2014-06-30)
This paper aims at providing a description of the means available nowadays for hypocoristization in Basque, although it is not our intention
to limit our investigation to present-day pet names. We have considered it
relevant ...