Basque, a language spoken on both sides of the western Pyrenees, has rich lexical and grammatical resources for expressing space. It has five different locational cases and over thirty locational postpositions, mostly spatial nouns which can take any of the locational casesuffixes. The five locational cases of Basque are locative –n, ablative –ti(k), allative –ra(t), terminative allative –raino...

Motivation to learn languages strongly correlates with language achievement, and the school context has a great influence on motivation of young learners (YLs). A key rationale for implementation content integrated learning (CLIL) programs, therefore, was pupil motivation. Very few studies have measured in this context, especially primary schools. Even fewer done so bilingual areas, where conti...

Basque is both a minority and a highly inflected language with free order of sentence constituents. Machine Translation of Basque is thus both a real need and a test bed for MT techniques. In this paper, we present a modular DataDriven MT system which includes different chunkers as well as chunk aligners which can deal with the free order of sentence constituents of Basque. We conducted Basque ...

This paper introduces two databases specifically designed for the development of ASR technology for the Basque language: the Basque Speecon-like database and the Basque SpeechDat MDB-600 database. The former was recorded in an office environment according to the Speecon specifications, whereas the later was recorded through mobile telephones according to the SpeechDat specifications. Both datab...

Fifty unrelated Basque males from southwest Idaho were typed for the 17 Y-STR loci in the Yfiler multiplex kit (DYS19, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS437, DYS438, DYS439, DYS448, DYS456, DYS458, DYS635, YGATA H4.1 and DYS385a/b). In total, 42 haplotypes were identified, with no more than two individuals sharing a single haplotype. The haplotype diversity (HD) was 0.9935, ...

Recent data from compound word processing suggests that compounds are recognized via their constituent lexemes (Juhasz, Starr, Inhoff, & Placke, 2003). The present lexical decision experiment manipulated orthogonally the frequency of the constituents of compound words in two languages: Basque and Spanish. Basque and Spanish diverge widely in their morphological properties and in the number of e...

Bruno Rousseau1,2,* and Aitor Bergara1,2,3,† 1Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal, Donostia, 20018 Basque Country, Spain 2Centro de Fisica de Materiales, CSIC-UPV/EHU, 1072 Posta kutxatila, Donostia, E-20080 Basque Country, Spain 3Materia Kondentsatuaren Fisika Saila, Zientzia eta Teknologia Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 644 Postakutxatila, Bilb...