BASQUE LANGUAGE AND BASQUE TOPONYMY: INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS AND STANDARTISATION
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017 The Basque language (euskera) is an isolate language spoken by about one million people in northeast Spain and southwest France. According to the most common version about its origin the Basque language is of Aquitanian origin.
Olga S Chesnokova, Liana M Dzhishkariani
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Speech perception consistency facilitates initial lexical activation, but not speech perception flexibility [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSpeech perception consistency refers to the similarity between a listener’s responses to repeated presentations of the same speech sound (e.g., along a /ba/–/pa/ continuum).
Brian W. L. Wong +2 more
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Thalamic nuclei volume changes associated with cognitive and motor manifestations of Parkinson’s disease [PDF]
npj Parkinson's DiseaseMotor and cognitive symptoms are key features of Parkinson’s disease (PD), which typically appear over time as the disease progresses. The thalamus, a central hub within basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits, plays a crucial role in motor, sensory, and ...
Vicente J. Ferrer-Gallardo +4 more
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Oscillatory dynamics underlying noun and verb production in highly proficient bilinguals
Scientific Reports, 2022 Words representing objects (nouns) and words representing actions (verbs) are essential components of speech across languages. While there is evidence regarding the organizational principles governing neural representation of nouns and verbs in ...
Shuang Geng +5 more
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Advances in monolingual and crosslingual automatic disability annotation in Spanish
BMC Bioinformatics, 2023 Background Unlike diseases, automatic recognition of disabilities has not received the same attention in the area of medical NLP. Progress in this direction is hampered by obstacles like the lack of annotated corpus.
Iakes Goenaga +3 more
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Behavioral and oscillatory signatures of switch costs in highly proficient bilinguals
Scientific Reports, 2023 Bilinguals with a high proficiency in their first (L1) and second language (L2) often show comparable reaction times when switching from their L1 to L2 and vice-versa (“symmetrical switch costs”).
Polina Timofeeva +5 more
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Reading without phonology: ERP evidence from skilled deaf readers of Spanish
Scientific Reports, 2021 Reading typically involves phonological mediation, especially for transparent orthographies with a regular letter to sound correspondence. In this study we ask whether phonological coding is a necessary part of the reading process by examining ...
Brendan Costello +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Language perception studies on bilinguals often show that words that share form and meaning across languages (cognates) are easier to process than words that share only meaning. This facilitatory phenomenon is known as the cognate effect.
Candice Frances +2 more
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Automatic Classification of Synthetic Voices for Voice Banking Using Objective Measures
Applied Sciences, 2022 Speech is the most common way of communication among humans. People who cannot communicate through speech due to partial of total loss of the voice can benefit from Alternative and Augmentative Communication devices and Text to Speech technology.
Agustin Alonso +4 more
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Phonetic accommodation in non-native directed speech supports L2 word learning and pronunciation
Scientific Reports, 2023 This study assessed whether Non-native Directed Speech (NNDS) facilitates second language (L2) learning, specifically L2 word learning and production. Spanish participants (N = 50) learned novel English words, presented either in NNDS or Native-Directed ...
Giorgio Piazza +2 more
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