• Better to Be Alone than in Bad Company: Cognate Synonyms Impair Word Learning 

      Antón, Eneko; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-29)
      The effects of cognate synonymy in L2 word learning are explored. Participants learned the names of well-known concrete concepts in a new fictional language following a picture-word association paradigm. Half of the concepts (set A) had two possible translations in the new language (i.e., both words were synonyms): one was a cognate in participants’ L1 and the other one was not. The other half ...
    • ¡Hola! Nice to meet you: language mixing and biographical in- 2 formation processing 

      Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni; Antón, Eneko (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-26)
      In bilingual communities, social interactions take place in both single- and mixed-language contexts. Some of the information shared in multilingual conversations, such as interlocutors’ personal information, is often required in consequent social encounters. In this study, we explored whether the autobiographical information provided in a single-language context is better remembered than in an ...
    • Incidental changes in orthographic processing in the native language as a function of learning a new language late in life 

      Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni; Borragan, Maria; Casaponsa, Aina; Antón, Eneko (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-25)
      Acquiring a second alphabetic language also entails learning a new set of orthographic rules and specific patterns of grapheme combinations (namely, the orthotactics). The present longitudinal study aims to investigate whether orthotactic sensitivity changes over the course of a second language learning programme. To this end, a group of Spanish monolingual old adults completed a Basque language ...
    • Recycling in Babel: The Impact of Foreign Languages in Rule Learning 

      Antón, Eneko; Soleto, Natalia B.; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-27)
      Environmental decisions and prosocial behaviors have been shown to be emotionally mediated, and language is at the core of emotions. The language context can alter the way decisions are made, and using a foreign language tends to favor an analytic approach to the decision and reduce its emotional resonance. In the present work, we explored whether or not the strategic use of a native vs. a non-native ...