FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ IBARRA. Reseña de Muñoz-Basols, Javier; Moreno, Nina; Taboada, Inma; Lacorte, Manel. 2017. Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual. Teoría y práctica. Londres y Nueva York: Routledge.

Obra ressenyada: Javier MUÑOZ-BASOLS; Nina MORENO; Inma TABOADA; Manel LACORTE, Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual. Teoría y práctica. Londres y Nueva York: Routledge, 2017

What makes people bond?: A study on social interactions and common life points on Facebook

In this paper we aim at understanding if and how, by analysing people's profile and historical data (such as data available on Facebook profiles and interactions, or collected explicitly) we can motivate two persons to interact and eventually create long-term bonds. We do this by exploring the relationship between connectedness, social interactions and common life points on Facebook. The results are of particular importance for the development of technology that aims at reducing social isolation for people with less chances to interact, such as older adults

Online Group-exercises for Older Adults of Different Physical Abilities

In this paper we describe the design and validation of a virtual fitness environment aiming at keeping older adults physically and socially active. We target particularly older adults who are socially more isolated, physically less active, and with less chances of training in a gym. The virtual fitness environment, namely Gymcentral, was designed to enable and motivate older adults to follow personalised exercises from home, with a (heterogeneous) group of remote friends and under the remote supervision of a Coach. We take the training activity as an opportunity to create social interactions, by complementing training features with social instruments. Finally, we report on the feasibility and effectiveness of the virtual environment, as well as its effects on the usage and social interactions, from an intervention study in Trento, Ital

“Les voy a echar de menos cuando regrese a los Estados Unidos”: adquisición de la variación dialectal por aprendientes de español en un contexto de inmersión

RESUMEN: En general se cree que estudiar en el extranjero es una de las maneras más eficientes y exitosas para adquirir el dominio de una lengua extranjera (L2), ya que los aprendientes se encuentran en situaciones en las que usan la lengua diariamente e interactúan con hablantes nativos. Después de una gran cantidad de investigación centrada en los resultados de la L2 de los programas de inmersión en español, muchas preguntas relativas a la adquisición de los patrones de la variación lingüística común a una comunidad en particular en un contexto de inmersión siguen sin respuesta. Este artículo explora hasta qué grado un grupo de aprendientes de español adquirieren estructuras variables del lenguaje, específicamente, el fenómeno del leísmo, mientras participan en un programa de inmersión de cinco meses en Valladolid (España). Los resultados sugieren que los aprendientes en un contexto de inmersión, de hecho, estimulan la conciencia de las formas no convencionales de la lengua meta, que son, hasta cierto punto, incorporadas a su competencia sociolingüística. En resumen, este estudio contribuye a ampliar un mayor conocimiento sobre el desarrollo de la competencia lingüística de la interlengua durante una estancia en el extranjero, así como a llenar un vacío en el nuevo capítulo de los estudios sobre la adquisición de la variación dialectal. ABSTRACTIt is generally believed that study abroad is one of the most efficient and successful ways to acquire proficiency in a second language (L2), since learners find themselves in situations in which they can use the language on a daily basis and interact with native speakers. After a wealth of research on the L2 outcomes of Spanish immersion programs, many questions pertaining to the acquisition of patterns of language variation common to a particular community in an SA context remain unanswered. This article explores the extent to which a group of learners of Spanish acquire variable structures of language - specifically, the leísmo phenomenon- while participating in a five-month study-abroad immersion program in Valladolid (Spain). The results suggest that SA learners do in fact develop an awareness of non-standard forms of the target language, which are, to a certain degree, incorporated into their sociolinguistic competence. In sum, this study adds further knowledge about the development of L2 linguistic competence during a sojourn abroad, and fills a gap in the new strand of studies on the acquisition of dialectal variation

Improving early design stage timing modeling in multicore based real-time systems

This paper presents a modelling approach for the timing behavior of real-time embedded systems (RTES) in early design phases. The model focuses on multicore processors - accepted as the next computing platform for RTES - and in particular it predicts the contention tasks suffer in the access to multicore on-chip shared resources. The model presents the key properties of not requiring the application's source code or binary and having high-accuracy and low overhead. The former is of paramount importance in those common scenarios in which several software suppliers work in parallel implementing different applications for a system integrator, subject to different intellectual property (IP) constraints. Our model helps reducing the risk of exceeding the assigned budgets for each application in late design stages and its associated costs.This work has received funding from the European Space Agency under Project Reference AO=17722=13=NL=LvH, and has also been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation grant TIN2015-65316-P. Jaume Abella has been partially supported by the MINECO under Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral fellowship number RYC-2013-14717.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Validating a timing simulator for the NGMP multicore processor

Timing simulation is a key element in multicore systems design. It enables a fast and cost effective design space exploration, allowing to simulate new architectural improvements without requiring RTL abstraction levels. Timing simulation also allows software developers to perform early testing of the timing behavior of their software without the need of buying the actual physical board, which can be very expensive when the board uses non-COTS technology. In this paper we present the validation of a timing simulator for the NGMP multicore processor, which is a 4 core processor being developed to become the reference platform for future missions of the European Space Agency.The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Space Agency under contract NPI 4000102880 and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain under contract TIN-2015-65316-P. Jaume Abella has been partially supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral fellowship number RYC-2013-14717.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

El encuentro intercultural en el álbum ilustrado contemporáneo

Nuestro trabajo presenta el análisis de la interculturalidad en una muestra relevante de álbumes ilustrados publicados en España durante la última década, y dirigidos a niñas y niños que empiezan a leer. Analizamos en esta selección, por una parte, el tratamiento de la interculturalidad (identidad, convivencia, emigración, personajes, etc.); y, por otra, los recursos visuales más significativos utilizados en sus ilustraciones (formatos de página, planos, angulaciones, composición, etc.), que tienen como objeto colaborar activamente en la construcción del significado que propone el texto (palabra e imagen) y realiza el lector