• Are translation equivalents really equivalent? Evidence from concreteness effects in translation priming. 

      Chaouch Orozco, Adel; Gonzáles Alonso, Jorge; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Translation equivalents intuitively seem to overlap in meaning. Moreover, the models of the bilingual lexicon often represent the meaning shared between two translations as a holistic node in the semantic network. However, research on semantic representation and processing questions this holistic approach. For instance, abstract words are assumed to be more language-dependent, while concrete ...
    • Event Related Potentials at Initial Exposure in Third Language Acquisition: Implications from an Artificial Mini-Grammar Study. 

      Gonzáles Alonso, Jorge; Alemán Bañón, José; DeLuca, Vincent; Miller, David; Soares, Sergio Miguel Pereira; Slaats, Sophie; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-01)
      The present article examines the proposal that typology is a major factor guiding transfer selectivity in L3/L<i>n</i> acquisition. We tested first exposure in L3/L<i>n</i> using two artificial languages (ALs) lexically based in English and Spanish, focusing on gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and between nouns and adjectives. 50 L1 Spanish-L2 English speakers took part in the experiment. ...
    • Neurolinguistic measures of typological effects in multilingual transfer: introducing an ERP methodology 

      Rothman, Jason; Alemán-Bañón, José; Gonzáles Alonso, Jorge (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-08-07)
      This article has two main objectives. First, we offer an introduction to the subfield of generative third language (L3) acquisition. Concerned primarily with modeling initial stages transfer of morphosyntax, one goal of this program is to show how initial stages L3 data make significant contributions toward a better understanding of how the mind represents language and how (cognitive) economy ...