Comparing the effects of performing and recalling acts of kindness
Language attitudes and L2 pronunciation: An experimental study with Flemish adolescent learners of English.
Since pronunciation serves as a vehicle for both intelligibility and identity, exploring learners’ attitudes towards different accent varieties can allow both pedagogical and sociolinguistic insights into second language acquisition. This study investigates the attitudes of Flemish secondary school students towards RP and General American and the r...
Naive geography: geoconceptology and topology of geomental maps.
Published in Heliyon
The article presents the study of the geospace mental representations and their variability depending on the regional point of view. The research material comprises about 500 naive maps of Russia, created by informants of seven Russian regions: Moscow, St. Petersburg (capitals), Siberia (Barnaul, Biysk), Southern, Mid- and Northern Ural (Orenburg, ...
The Strength of Cross-Language Interdependence for Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Turkish-Dutch Emergent Bilingu...
status: published
Friend or foe? Flankers reverse the direction of orthographic neighbourhood effects
status: published
Didn't hear that coming: Effects of withholding phonetic cues to code-switching
Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Code-switching has been found to incur a processing cost in auditory comprehension. However, listeners may have access to anticipatory phonetic cues to code-switches (Piccinini & Garellek, 2014; Fricke et al., 2016), thus mitigating switch cost. We investigated effects of withholding anticipatory phonetic cues on cod...
Good for self or good for others? The well-being benefits of kindness in two cultures depend on how the kindness is fram...
An exploration of amygdala-prefrontal mechanisms in the intergenerational transmission of learned fear.
Humans learn about their environments by observing others, including what to fear and what to trust. Observational fear learning may be especially important early in life when children turn to their parents to gather information about their world. Yet, the vast majority of empirical research on fear learning in youth has thus far focused on firstha...
William Frédéric Edwards and the study of human races in France, from the Restoration to the July Monarchy.
Published in History of science; an annual review of literature, research and teaching
Scholars of the nineteenth-century race sciences have tended to identify the period from c.1820-c.1850 as a phase of transition from philologically to physically focused study. In France, the physiologist William Frédéric Edwards (1776-1842) is normally placed near the center of this transformation. A reconsideration of Edwards' oeuvre in the conte...
ANTOLOGIA POÉTICA DE DRUMMOND
Este artigo valer-se-á de alguns procedimentos linguísticos, para depreender princípios organizadores da primeira seção “Um eu todo retorcido” do livro Antologia Poética, de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, considerada como uma obra representativa não apenas por dispor de uma variedade de poemas, mas também por ter sido organizada pelo próprio autor. E...
