Ibáñez Lillo, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2017-02-24)
In order to find the referents of words, infants rely on constrains that guide their interpretations. Currently, little is known about how language environment influences referent identification. ...
Branzi, Francesca Martina (Date of defense: 2014-12-05)
When bilinguals plan to speak even one word, lexicalization processes of the two languages becomes concurrently activated. Surprisingly, bilingual speech production is not dramatically affected. This ...
Rocafiguera Montanyà, Núria de (Date of defense: 2023-01-30)
Pronominal anaphora resolution, and particularly the interpretation of third-person null and overt subject pronouns, is a complex linguistic phenomenon of the syntax-pragmatics interface. On the one ...
Avello, Pilar (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
The present study investigates the impact of a 3-month study abroad (SA) period on second language (L2) phonological development in speech production by means of acoustic-phonetic measures, as well ...
Pi Casaus, Gisela (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)
Newborns are able to perceive sound of many languages. However, throughout their first year of life, both biological maturation and language exposure attune infants’ perceptual systems to the characteristics ...