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Sensitivity to ideophones by child non-native speakers increases with age

Frontiers in Language Sciences
Sound-symbolic effects have been claimed to facilitate word learning, because of the motivated relationship between form and meaning. According to some views, such effects result from human-specific perceptive and cognitive biases and can be thus ...
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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Notas sobre la lengua de un guipuzcoano emigrado a Indias en el siglo XVIII

Estudios de Lingüística, 2002
Eighteenth century has always been a less studied period in Spanish Philology, especially in the case of History of Spanish Language: Lexicon has been more or less studied, but almost everything about syntax or phonology must be still done ...
Sara  Gómez Seibane, José Luis Ramírez Luengo   +1 more
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The Evangelical Aim in the History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China by Juan González de Mendoza, a 16th Century European Work on China

Religions
For over five centuries, the History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China, written by Spanish missionary Juan González de Mendoza and published in 1585 in Rome, has captured the interest of the international academic community.
Bo Gao
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Williams Syndrome, Human Self-Domestication, and Language Evolution

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Language evolution resulted from changes in our biology, behavior, and culture. One source of these changes might be human self-domestication. Williams syndrome (WS) is a clinical condition with a clearly defined genetic basis which results in a ...
Amy Niego, Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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THE TALE IN TEACHING THE SPANISH LANGUAGE: PHILOLOGICAL AND DIDACTICAL ASPECTS

Publicaciones, 2011
The present study, integrated into a project of educational innovation, presents a number of proposals concerning the didactical use of the tale. This study includes several levels of education and the special case of the language impaired children.
Carmen Servén, Miguel Lázaro
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From Physical Aggression to Verbal Behavior: Language Evolution and Self-Domestication Feedback Loop

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
We propose that human self-domestication favored the emergence of a less aggressive phenotype in our species, more precisely phenotype prone to replace (reactive) physical aggression with verbal aggression.
Ljiljana Progovac, Antonio Benítez-Burraco   +1 more
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Corpus históricos del español Avances y tareas pendientes Historical corpora of Spanish Improvements and pending tasks

Studia Linguistica Romanica
The introduction analyzes the role of electronic historical corpora in the development of Spanish historical linguistics and the enrichment of Hispanic philology over the past few decades.
Bertolotti, Virginia, Company Company, Concepción   +1 more
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Interferencias de otras lenguas observadas en estudiantes polacos de filología española

Studia Iberystyczne, 2011
Other Languages Interference in Polish Speaking Students of Spanish Philology Although a lot has been written about the interference of other languages different from the mother tongue in learning a new foreign language, the observation of the signs ...
Ewa Palka
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‘The Subversion of Dialects’: Changing Attitudes towards Rural Varieties of Galician

Languages
The gheada and the seseo are the two pronunciations most stigmatised by the top-down standardising tradition of Galician from the mid-19th century. Social stereotypes of peasantry, ignorance, and vulgarity were built on them.
Montserrat Recalde, Mauro Fernández
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