Browsing BCBL-Publications by Author "Garcia, Xavier"

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      Holiday or vacation? The processing of variation in vocabulary across dialects 

      Martin, Clara D.; Garcia, Xavier; Potter, Douglas; Melinger, Alissa; Costa, Albert (Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016)
      Native speakers with different linguistic backgrounds differ in their usage of language, and particularly in their vocabulary. For instance, British natives would use the word "holiday" when American natives would prefer ...
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      World knowledge and novel information integration during L2 speech comprehension 

      Romero-Rivas, Carlos; Corey, Joanna D.; Garcia, Xavier; Thierry, Guillaume; Martin, Clara D.; Costa, Albert (Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2017)
      In this study we explore whether world knowledge (WK) processing differs between individuals listening to their native (L1) or their non-native (L2) language. We recorded event-related brain potentials in L1 and L2 speakers ...
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      World knowledge integration during second language comprehension 

      Martin, Clara D.; Garcia, Xavier; Breton, Audrey; Thierry, Guillaume; Costa, Albert (Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016)
      In order to study the difficulties experienced during sentence comprehension in a foreign language (L2), we investigated semantic and world knowledge information retrieval in L2 comprehenders. Event-related potentials ...