Browsing BCBL-Publications by Author "Caffarra, Sendy"
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What usage can do: The effect of language dominance on simultaneous bilinguals’ morphosyntactic processing
Caffarra, Sendy; Zimnukhova, Svetlana; Mancini, Simona (Linguistics Vanguard, 2016)Even when bilinguals learn both languages from birth and achieve high levels of proficiency, they rarely use their languages to the same degree. Recent findings suggest that individual differences in bilingual profile ... -
When A Nonnative Accent Lets You Spot All the Errors: Examining the Syntactic Interlanguage Benefit
Gosselin, Leah; Martin, Clara D.; González Martín, Ana; Caffarra, Sendy (MIT PRESS, 2022)In our continuously globalizing world, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic communications are far from exceptional. A wealth of research has indicated that the processing of nonnative-accented speech can be challenging for ... -
When is irony influenced by communicative constraints? ERP evidence supporting interactive models
Caffarra, Sendy; Motamed Haeri, Arman; Michell, Elissa; Martin, Clara D. (European Journal of Neuroscience, 2019)Distinct theoretical proposals have described how communicative constraints (contextual biases, speaker identity) impact verbal irony processing. Modular models assume that social and contextual factors have an effect ... -
When the end matters: influence of gender cues during agreement computation in bilinguals
Caffarra, Sendy; Barber, Horacio; Molinaro, Nicola; Carreiras, Manuel (Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2017)The present event-related potential (ERP) study was aimed at testing whether form-function mappings can differently affect sentence comprehension in early bilinguals with a range of linguistic profiles. Basque–Spanish ... -
Who are you talking to? The role of addressee identity in utterance comprehension
Caffarra, Sendy; Wolpert, Max; Scarinci, Dana; Mancini, Simona (Psychophysiology, 2020)Experimental evidence suggests that speaker and addressee quickly adapt to each other from the earliest moments of sentence processing, and that interlocutor-related information is rapidly integrated with other sources ... -
Word and object recognition during reading acquisition: MEGevidence
Caffarra, Sendy; Martin, Clara D.; Lizarazu, Mikel; Lallier, Marie; Zarraga, Asier (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017)Studies on adults suggest that reading-induced brain changes might not be limited to linguistic processes. It is still unclear whether these results can be generalized to reading development. The present study shows to ...