• Changes in the Sensitivity to Language-Specific Orthographic Patterns With Age 

      Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni; Borragan, Maria; de Bruin, Angela; Casaponsa, Aina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-14)
      How do bilingual readers of languages that have similar scripts identify a language switch? Recent behavioral and electroencephalographic results suggest that they rely on orthotactic cues to recognize the language of the words they read in ambiguous contexts. Previous research has shown that marked words with language-specific letter sequences (i.e., letter sequences that are illegal in one of the ...
    • 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 ...
    • The role of orthotactics in language switching: An ERP investigation using masked language priming 

      Casaponsa, Aina; Thierry, Guillaume; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-31)
      It is commonly accepted that bilinguals access lexical representations from their two languages during language comprehension, even when they operate in a single language context. Language detection mechanisms are, thus, hypothesized to operate after the stage of lexical access during visual word recognition. However, recent studies showed reduced cross-language activation when sub-lexical properties ...