A5051644081- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Translation Studies and Practices
- Language Development and Disorders
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Topic Modeling
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
2018-2025
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2013-2015
University of Edinburgh
2007-2013
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania
2010
We examined the impact of effects dyslexia on various processing and cognitive components (e.g., reading speed accuracy) in a language with high phonological orthographic consistency. Greek dyslexic children were compared chronological age-matched group tasks that tested participants' awareness during spelling, as well their efficiency to detect specific target-letter sequential visual search task. Dyslexic showed impaired spelling was reflected slow error-prone performance, especially for...
The present study examined whether processing words with affective connotations in a listener's native language may be modulated by accented speech. To address this question, we used the Event Related Potential (ERP) technique and recorded cerebral activity of Spanish listeners, who performed semantic categorization task, while listening to positive, negative neutral produced standard or four foreign accents. behavioural results yielded longer latencies for emotional than both speech, no...
Abstract The growing interdisciplinary research field of psycholinguistics is in constant need new and up-to-date tools which will allow researchers to answer complex questions, but also expand on languages other than English, dominates the field. One type such are picture datasets provide naming norms for everyday objects. However, existing databases tend be small terms number items they include, have been normed a limited languages, despite recent boom multilingualism research. In this...
The present paper provides a psycholinguistic approach to the process of comprehension. Namely, how people represent and make use literal figurative meaning words sentences, they decode communicative purpose linguistic elements, memory is involved in this decoding. By explaining findings studies on mental processes that underlie comprehension language, we show (i) closely related translatology psycholinguistics can be, (ii) suggest ways which knowledge latter may be used both enrich theories...
ABSTRACT A text -translation task and a recognition investigated the hypothesis that semantic memory principally mediates translation from bilingual's native first language (L1) to her second (L2), whereas lexical L2 L1. This has been held for word by revised hierarchical model (RHM) of Kroll Stewart. The results Greek, English, French fluent bilinguals showed errors in L1–L2 direction L2–L1 as RHM would predict, but not effects task. These findings suggest flexible use conceptual...
Do cross-lingual interactions occur even with structures of different word order in languages bilinguals? Or could the latter provide immunity to interference contrasting characteristics other language? To answer this question, we examined reported speech production (utterances reporting what just happened; e.g., Holly asked Eric ate ) two groups proficient, unbalanced bilinguals varying similarity between their native (L1-Spanish/L1-Dutch) and second language (L2-English). The results...
Abstract In the last few years, study of cognitive processes that underlie translating act is well under way in field translation studies (TS). Yet considering potential this research area, behaviour and how it affected modulated by linguistic psycholinguistic factors still underinvestigated. The main culprit holdback appears to be fuzziness over what experimental methods are expected deliver sometimes they actually used. present discussion article outlines these aspects, draws attention...
Digital communication has generated forms of written speech that may deviate from standard ones, such as Greeklish (a Latin-alphabet-based script) vs. Greek. The question interest is how different orthographic representations the same referent (e.g. petaloyda, "butterfly", in πϵταλούδα "butterfly" Greek) influence word processing, particularly visual recognition and access to affective connotations. 120 Greek native speakers were tested on a lexical decision task, which script (Greeklish...
Successful subject-verb agreement production requires retrieving the verbal forms that agree with features of subject head noun and not other nouns in sentence. We investigate, for first time, electrophysiological indexes number attraction word order during production. Twenty-four Basque native speakers were tested while producing auxiliary verbs sentence completion transitive preambles involving singular subjects or plural objects canonical (SOV) non-canonical (OSV) structures. ERP results...
Considering the crosstalk between brain networks that contain linguistic and emotional information no studies have examined impact of semantic affective nature on subject-verb number agreement, present Event Related Potential (ERP) study investigated extent to which local nouns whose mismatched subject head might be considered by parser during comprehension grammatically correct sentences. To this end, twenty-eight Spanish native speakers were tested a self-paced reading task while their...
In an eye-tracking experiment, we investigated the interplay between visual and linguistic information processing during time-telling, how this is affected by speaking in a non-native language. We compared time-telling Greek English, which differ word order (hour vs. minute mentioned first), contrasting Greek-English bilinguals their L1-Greek or L2-English, English monolingual speakers. All three groups were faster when telling time for digital than analogue clocks, first half-hour second...