More than one language in the brain

Boeckx C., M.C. Horno & J.L. Mendívil (Eds.)[EN] What difference does it make to have one language in the brain or to have more than one? This is an intriguing and currently much inquired question, which can help us unravel more than one mystery concerning language and the brain. At present, we only know bits and pieces of the answer. As research progresses and more pieces of this large and complex puzzle fit together, we discover some general outlines of the answer, and realize the intricacies of the detail. In this chapter, I will attempt to keep our eyes set in that general outline, occasionally dwelling into a detail or two, in the hope of giving you a glimpse of how research is conducted in this field of inquiry.Spanish Ministry of Education and Science within the program CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 (BRAINGLOT CSD2007-00012), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2009-09695), and the Basque Council for Education, Universities and Research (IT414-10

On language production principles and the form of language: a más cómo, menos por qué

Researchfunding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness CSD2007- 00012, FFI2012-31360 and the Basque Government IT665-13

Negative Transfer Effects on L2 Word Order Processing

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 process subject-verb-object (SVO) and object-verb-subject (OVS) non-canonical word order sentences of Basque in the same way as Basque native speakers. Crucially, while OVS orders are non-canonical in both Spanish and Basque, SVO is non-canonical in Basque but is the canonical word order in Spanish. Our electrophysiological results showed that the characteristics of L1 affect the processing of the L2 even at highly proficient and early-acquired bilingual populations. Specifically, in the non-native group, we observed a left anterior negativity-like component when comparing S and O at sentence initial position and a P600 when comparing those elements at sentence final position. Those results are similar of those reported by Casado et al. (2005) for native speakers of Spanish indicating that L2-Basque speakers rely in their L1-Spanish when processing SVO-OVS word order sentences. Our results favored the competition model (MacWhinney, 1997).This research has been supported by grants from the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitivad and Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (FFI2015-64183-P and RYC-2010-06520) and the Basque Government (IT665-13)

Hitzak sarean. Pello Salabururi esker onez

168 p.Hona hemen, irakurle, Pello Salaburu maisu handiari eskaintzen diogun esker on liburua. Hamaika lan bildu ditugu, hainbat alorretakoak: euskararen lexikografia, terminologia, historia, gramatika, corpus ikerketa eta baita euskara eta gaztelaniaren prozesamenduari buruzkoak ere. Askotarikoa izan baita, zalantza gabe, Salaburuk utzi digun uzta oparoa; hizkuntzalaritzan, euskararen fonologian, gramatikan, lexikografian aitzindari izan dugu, gramatika sortzailearen esparruan lehenik, gero corpus eta hiztegi digitalak sortuaz, gure hizkuntza hobeto ezagutzeko, zaintzeko eta erabiltzeko behar ditugun xxi. mendeko lanabesak eraikiaz eta gizartean zabalduaz. Salabururen uzta ikerketaz eta akademiaz harago zabaltzen da, gure gizarteak ezagutu dituen hainbat erronkatara. Pello ez da inoiz uzkurtu gogoeta egin behar izan denean, bakegintzaren bideari dagokiola edo unibertsitatearen etorkizunari, beldur gabe agertu izan zaigu beti plazan, argi mintzatuaz, zuzen, hitzen kiribiletan sekula bere burua ezkutatu gabe

Ergatiboa definitzen: lehengo saioa gramatika sortzailean

Xabier Artiagoitia Beaskoetxea (coord.), Patxi Goenaga Mendizabal (coord.) , Joseba Andoni Lakarra Andrinua (coord.). Anejo del Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 44.Lan hau, Eusko Jaurlaritzaren Hezkuntza eta Ikerkuntza eta Unibertsitate Sailaren PI-1999-18 eta Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateko 9/UPV 00027.130-13587/2001 ikerkuntza laguntzei zor zaie

Negation in syntax--on the nature of functional categories and projections

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1990.Title as it appears in the Sept. 1990 M.I.T. Graduate List: On the nature of functional categories and projections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-270).by Miren Itziar Laka Mugarza.Ph.D