In this paper, I argue that bare plural noun phrases in Spanish unambiguously denote properties of individuals. I begin by using evidence from their incompatibility with kind-level predicates to show that Spanish bare ...

Previous work has shown how native listeners benefit from observing iconic gestures during speech comprehension tasks of both degraded and non-degraded speech. By contrast, effects of the use of gestures in non-native ...

Although research has shown that adults can benefit from the presence of beat gestures in word recall tasks, studies have failed to conclusively generalize these findings to preschool children. This study investigated ...

This paper addresses several problematic scientific practices in psycholinguistic research. We discuss challenges that arise when working with minority languages, such as the notion of monolingual/monocultural normality ...

The experience of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH, “hearing voices”) in schizophrenia has been found to be associated with reduced auditory cortex activation during perception of real auditory stimuli like tones and ...

Three experimental studies are presented testing the choice of a left or a right dislocation in Catalan, depending on the bridging relation between the dislocate and its antecedent. We make the hypothesis that the stronger ...

This paper presents a sworn translation project designed to enhance the development of professional skills associated with a prototypical freelance sworn translation job. However, unlike traditional translation classroom ...

Communicative pressures can give rise to regular patterns of language use. These patterns, in turn, can come to shape a language’s structure over time. In a recent study, Kanwal et al. (Cognition, 165:45–52, 2017) investigate ...

In 2021, Professor Alicia Relinque Eleta, the Spanish sinologist, translated Mo Xia Zhuan, which is the first Chinese translation of the Spanish classical novel Don Quijote de la Mancha (1603/1988) back into Spanish. Mo ...