The purpose of the present study was to determine whether early bilingual Basque-Spanish speakers, who acquired Spanish by the age of 5, comprehend Spanish wh-dependences as effortlessly as native Spanish speakers. Given that Basque and Spanish are structurally different languages, we hypothesized that predictive processing strategies from the first language (L1) would interfere with predictive...

Number representations change through education, although it is currently unclear whether and how language could impact the magnitude representation that we share with other species. The most prominent view is that language does not play any role in modulating the core numeric representation involved in the contrast of quantities. Nevertheless, possible cultural hints on the numerical magnitude...

1 Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (UMR 5175, CEFE – Campus CNRS), 1919 Route de Mende, Montpellier 34293, France 2 Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA 3 University of Florida, Department of Biology, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA 4 Organization for Tropical Studies, Duke University, 410 Swift Avenue, Box 90630, Durham, NC 27705, USA 5 Departamento d...

BACKGROUND The PISA project provides the basis for studying curriculum design and for comparing factors associated with school effectiveness. These studies are only valid if the different language versions are equivalent to each other. In Spain, the application of PISA in autonomous regions with their own languages means that equivalency must also be extended to the Spanish, Galician, Catalan a...

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...

This paper studies an allocation procedure for coalitional games with veto players. The procedure is similar to the one presented by Arin and Feltkamp (J Math Econ 43:855—870, 2007), which is based on Dagan et al. (Games Econ Behav 18:55—72, 1997). A distinguished player makes a proposal that the remaining players must accept or reject, and conflict is solved bilaterally between the rejector an...

1 Department of Computer Technology and Architecture, University of Granada, Granada, Spain 2Department of Information and Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland 3 IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Spain 4Computational Intelligence Group, Computer Science Faculty, University of the Basque Country, Paseo Manuel Lardizabal 1, Donostia/San Sebas...

Abstract The grain size of orthographic representations prompted by a consistent orthography (like Spanish or Basque) increases if reading is simultaneously learned in another language with an inconsistent French). Here, we aimed to identify item properties that trigger this grain-size accommodation bilingual reading. Twenty-five French–Basque and 25 Spanish–Basque children attending Grade 3 re...

In this paper we present a system for translating named entities from Basque to Spanish based on comparable corpora. For that purpose we have tried two approaches: one based on Basque linguistic features, and a language-independent tool. For both tools we have used BasqueSpanish comparable corpora, a bilingual dictionary and the web as resources.

Inherited factor XI deficiency is an injuryrelated bleeding disorder that is rare in most populations except for Jews, in whom 2 mutations, a stop mutation in exon 5 (type II) and a missense mutation in exon 9 (type III), predominate. Recently, a cluster of 39 factor XI–deficient patients was described in the Basque population of Southwestern France. In this study, we determined the molecular b...