Browsing Universitat Pompeu Fabra by Subject "80"

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The antiquarians of the nation: archaeologists and philologists in nineteenth-century Roussillon

Zantedeschi, Francesca (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

The purpose of this thesis is to formulate a coherent history of Roussillon in the nineteenth century in an attempt to explain the causes for the weaknesses underpinning its Catalan cultural revival. In order to do so, I ...

The Bilingual cost in speech production : studies of phonological and articulatory processes

Sadat Schaffai, Jasmin (Date of defense: 2012-12-14)

The main objective of this dissertation is to examine the consequences of bilingualism on speech production. Previous research has shown that bilingual speakers experience a cost compared to monolinguals in a variety of ...

The effect of foreign language on emotion regulation

Ortigosa Beltrán, Isabel (Date of defense: 2023-05-10)

Hay personas que se pueden enfrentar, por unas razones u otras, a un tratamiento terapéutico en un idioma que no es su idioma nativo. Hasta la fecha, no hay apenas información de qué efecto tendría usar una lengua no nativa ...

The Effect of foreign language processing on moral decision-making

Corey, Joanna Darrow (Date of defense: 2018-03-01)

Millones de personas aprenden una lengua extranjera, y algunas de estas personas, como las que trabajan en organizaciones internacionales, la usan a diario como vehículo de comunicación, llevando a cabo juicios y decisiones ...

The Universality of perceptual and linguistic constraints in the extraction of rule-like patterns : a cross-species comparison

Martínez de la Mora, Daniela (Date of defense: 2013-05-03)

Studies have shown that linguistic and perceptual constraints are important for speech processing. First, rule-like structures are more easily learned over vowels than over consonants. Second, sequences varying in pitch ...

Tracking lexical processing in bimodal bilingualism: evidence from Catalan sign language

Gimeno-Martínez, Marc (Date of defense: 2023-05-25)

This dissertation focuses on the study of bimodal bilingual lexical processing in two different populations, deaf signers and hearing early sign language learners. We report evidence that iconicity influences sign retrieval ...