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Within the classical debate between the discrete or continuous nature of linguistic phenomena, there is controversy regarding the relationship between different lexical categories and the internal relationship between the different words that are part of a specific category. In this contribution, we present the results of topological studies provided by Neurolinguistics and studies of acquisition, loss, processing, and storage conducted in Psycholinguistics to try to verify if there is any evidence in favor of or against the discrete nature of lexical categories, with special attention to the distinction between nouns and verbs and to the Indo-European languages. As a result of this work, we consider that there are sufficient indications to suggest that speakers distinguish lexical categories discreetly and homogeneously, but also establish a series of additional correlations between the members of these categories and different properties (among which the semantic component stands out). In this sense, we believe it is necessary to distinguish between these two levels of study: the discrete and automated nature of lexical categories and the various correlations that both speakers and researchers themselves can make with different study variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Thinking about the rapist. Finding the words of a crime" analyzes the psyche of the sexual rapist through clinical examples and theoretical review. The importance of talking about rape and sexual abuse to understand and treat the pathological symptom is highlighted. The text explores the psychological characteristics of the rapist, such as contempt for the victim and the projection of destruction onto her. The psychological consequences of rape are also mentioned, and the need for the victim to differentiate her mind from that of the rapist in order to survive psychologically is emphasized. The article concludes that it is necessary to continue researching and talking about trauma to advance in the psychoanalytic field. [Extracted from the article]

Class assembly, despite being a didactic resource that allows the development of social, civic and linguistic competences of the students in all educational stages, is usually limited to its practice in Early Childhood Education. This is why it is paradoxical that the assembly is little exploited in Primary Education, taking into account its use for the development of oral competence in the English language. After explaining the meaning of the use of the assembly for the development of language skills (with special attention to foreign language skills), this article shows that it is an effective teaching resource for the improvement of oral production and reception, both for pupils in bilingual and non-bilingual programmes. The aim of this work, therefore, is to compare the development of oral skills in English before and after a didactic intervention by means of an assembly in two schools, a bilingual school and a non-bilingual school, in the province of Córdoba (Spain), and to analyse whether there are significant differences in the progression of bilingual pupils in comparison with non-bilingual ones. The results derived from the implementation show that the assembly is a tool that allows to improve the oral linguistic competence in English of all the participants, resulting in a greater impact among the bilingual students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article explores the concept of silence as the source and meaning of all words. It reflects on its role in the poetry of Thomas Stearn Eliot and in different spiritual traditions. The importance of silence as a place of stillness and contemplation is highlighted, as well as its role in the search for human essence and connection with the divine. The relationship between silence and culture is also mentioned, and the need to reconcile with personal silence in order to find true humanity is proposed. The text analyzes the importance of silence and words in philosophy, arguing that silence reveals an underlying silent communion and that meaning is not found in the words themselves, but in a prelinguistic dimension that cannot be expressed. [Extracted from the article]

Ecuadorian Andean Spanish (EAS) has been in intense and sustained contact with Kichwa, a variety of Quechua spoken in Ecuador. Different studies have shown the influence of Kichwa in this variety of Andean Spanish at different levels, such as lexical, phonetic/phonological, morphosyntactic, and pragmatic (Bustamante 1991; Haboud 1998, 2018; Palacios 2005, 2007; Haboud y de la Vega 2008; Pfänder y Palacios 2013; Muysken 2019). Although morphological influence of Kichwa over EAS is minimal, there is evidence of the use of the Kichwa morpheme -ka in both Kichwa-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals (Lipski 2014; Muysken 2019). Nevertheless, no previous study analyzes the presence of this particle in the speech of EAS monolinguals. Thus, the present study offers a preliminary analysis about the distribution and discourse role of -ka in the speech of EAS monolinguals from the city of Ambato (EAS Ambateño). The data was obtained through sociolinguistic interviews and fieldwork notes collected between 2018 and 2019. The results show that EAS monolinguals from Ambato use -ka with different constituents (e.g., pronouns, nouns, adverbs, verbs, conjunctions). Regarding its role in the discourse, it is argued that -ka is a particle that evokes contrast (contrastive focus). Since we are in a language contact scenario, it is of the utmost importance to consider social, historical, and demographic factors of the city of Ambato along with the background of the speakers in order to understand the dynamics of the languages (Kichwa and Spanish) and try to find a possible answer to how this particle was incorporated in the speech of EAS monolinguals from Ambato. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Heidegger makes an approach to the notion of discourse which, to de magnitude of his work and the more or less marginal character that this notion has in that group, has not yet deserved systematic treatment. In this communication we try to collect some relevant elements of this thematization and emphasize the relationship that it manifests with its early conception of meaning. We concluded that the discourse thematization that Heidegger develops is decades ahead of what contemporary discourse theory is today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to develop a mobile application that facilitates learning to read and that facilitates the processes of automatic word recognition and lexical access for children with learning difficulties. The Basic4android software, suitable for creating compatible applications on a tablet with Android operating system, was used to develop the application. The application contains a vocabulary of 1500 words and the appearance of a game. It is based on the principles of direct path activation of word recognition or global path and cognitive anticipation. The mobile application allows teachers to easily control variables in the cognitive processing of exercises. It is concluded that the mobile application developed here can help in automating the process of word recognition for children with learning difficulties in reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this article is to show empirically the influence of social factors on spelling, taking as reference the approaches of the lexical availability. The study sample consists of 400 preuniversity students from Seville who conducted the survey following the guidelines of the Pan-Hispanic Project of Lexical Availability. The multivariate analyses show that women commit fewer misspellings than men in all the segments analyzed (type of center, population and sociocultural level) and that the frequency of error of men is greater in private centers than in public centers. This study opens new lines of research in the sociolinguistic and linguistics applied to language teaching, as it tests the influence of social factors not only in the lexicon available but also in the spelling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article has as main objective to discover where were Spanish dots before becoming for flamenco and find their traces in the commerce of Spain. To do this the research we will focus on the formation of the Spanish nation between 1750 and 1847. The main method of research has been the reading of images and graphic material related to gypsies, ballet and flamenco. We were immersed in the history, the etymology and semiotics of the word to find the source of the polka dots in the print of the typical flamenco dress in Spain. In the beginnings of flamenco, it was not uncommon to see a flamenco dressed with dots. The gypsy wore skirts plain or with other prints such as paintings vichy. To find the reason of this event we have focused on the evolution of the textile industry which has led us to the evolution of the rules of tariffs in the customs and this is how we were able to see that theyhad vetoed the entrance to the trade in Spain, considered as foreigners since 1792 intermittently until 1841. During that time, the noun acquired negative connotations in Spain, assimilating to sin or defect. The little time that flamenco out conforming, dots began to be seen between the fashion of the Spanish women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper tackles the morphophonological diversity of Spanish compounds (manirroto, cuelgacapas, pez estrella) without using concepts such as root, stem and word, whose scope is always restricted in order to explain all the constructions typically considered as compounds. Instead, we will deal with such morphophonological variation and distribution of units by differentiating, in first place, two kinds of syntactic contexts of lexical insertion (insertion on contexts with or without active agreement features) and, in second place, two kinds of lexical entries (free and bound entries). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports the results of a corpus analysis of lexical and syntactic transfers and discusses the role of Spanish L1 in the acquisition of Russian as a FL. The study focuses on the analysis of a corpus of 50 essays written by Spanish adults enrolled in the Official School of Languages of A Coruña. The aim of this paper is to identify interlinguistic and intralinguistic errors as well as to study the difficulty of these errors for Spanish-speaking learners of Russian as a FL in order to develop further pedagogical strategies adapted to their needs. Corpus analysis has shown that syntactic errors are more frequent than lexical ones. Specifically, the most frequent errors are those related to agreement in grammatical gender and verbal aspect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our work addresses a paradox that crosses the letters of Julián del Casal (1889-1893), in which he inscribes, profusely, the psychic malaise, the spleen, as required at the time to compose the figure of decadent artist, while simultaneously denies or minimizes the devastating power of the physical illness that would interrupt his life at the age of 33. Considering these conditions of stating and not stating the anguish, we ask ourselves: What can be heard - or not - in a supposedly intimate genre in the late 19th Century in Hispanic America? What can be said - or not - at that particular moment on the threat and the ignorance concerning one's own body, and concerning the social body as well? Where to find words to express the unspeakable about the young death?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Iamblichus' Babyloniaká was written in the Second Century and resumed by Photius in his Bibliotheca (Cod. 94). Classified among the erotic novels, it shares with them many elements: adventures of the protagonists, persecutions, apparent deaths, confusion of characters, second wedding of the female protagonist, letters and astonishing events (mirabilia). The argument has as a back-set the persecution of the protagonists, instructed by King Garmos, which also combines a series of episodes in a fictional tyme that seems short but that is interrupted by numerous digressions. The aim of this article is to present the above mentioned characteristics of the novel and offer different passages by which we can get a clearer idea of this piece of literature, very popular in its time, as the inmense amount of quotes from the Suda show, detaching its lexical richness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper I propose analysing the concepts of discovery and conquest, especially the latter, because its use varies in legal documents, which started with the Reyes Católicos, concerning the treatment of Spaniards toward Indians. The crucial point in my analysis will concern the discussion about the nature of the concept of conquest, its relationship with that of just war and the ethics of its application by the participants in the Controversia de Valladolid (1550-51): Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. The end point of my analysis is 1563, in the reign of Philip II, and the analysis is based on the lexical uses of these concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study characterizes, lexically, the nominal treatment formulas used by speakers from Medellin, taking as analysis points the morphological processes that intervene in the formation of the formulas and the practical-semantic values produced in the moment of the appeal. Concerning the methodological aspect, a lexicalgraphical methodology has been used, allowing the construction of a corpus in which the formulas are classified according to the lexical formation mechanism that intervenes and to the practicalsemantic values that influence the meaning of these lexical units. The article remarks the fact that the displacement of common names out of a nominal function, in order to create an appellate one, involves the appearance of a semantic load that expresses several connotations in which the morphological component also plays an important role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evidence concerning the role of morphology in the lexical access has been accumulated from the 70's, when the earliest systematic psycholinguistic studies were carried out. Such evidence refers not only to population without any linguistic impairment, but also to patients with aphasia or dyslexia. In this paper it is reviewed and presented the most outstanding studies showing the relevance of the morphological process, both on normal and on linguistic impaired people. Besides, it is suggested that according to the evidence published, it is fully congruent to introduce systematically in our daily clinical work those tasks devoted to train the morphological processing on patients who shows impairments on this level. Finally, some tasks in order to illustrate how to work on this topic in the clinic are included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study characterizes, lexically, the nominal treatment formulas used by speakers from Medellin, taking as analysis points the morphological processes that intervene in the formation of the formulas and the practical-semantic values produced in the moment of the appeal. Concerning the methodological aspect, a lexicalgraphical methodology has been used, allowing the construction of a corpus in which the formulas are classified according to the lexical formation mechanism that intervenes and to the practicalsemantic values that influence the meaning of these lexical units. The article remarks the fact that the displacement of common names out of a nominal function, in order to create an appellate one, involves the appearance of a semantic load that expresses several connotations in which the morphological component also plays an important role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Poor automatization of lexical access results in poor performance in reading comprehension (Perfetti, 1985 and 1991). This study relates the performance of 84 undergraduate students in word recognition and reading comprehension skills. Three items of a standardized test were given to the students—the reading of words and pseudowords to identify the percentage of error, and a reading comprehension item. The results show that 36% had high percentages of error in both lexical and semantic processes, while 19% had low percentages of error in both tasks. The effect of the lexical variables of frequency and length is evident. There is a higher percentage of error for low-frequency words and pseudowords and for long words and pseudowords. A higher rate of error in words and pseudowords correlated to a greater number of mistakes in reading comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This work analyzes A Debravo´s (Or Debravian) text from López-Casanova structuralist theoretical principles with the purpose to outline poem indicators, theme scheme, characterization, construction conventions, and climax structure at the representation level. On the other hand, at the imaginary level, it analyzes pragmatic and lexical semantic features from syntax to tonic words. In this way, this study sets forth an example of a methodological approach to a poem, in which the author outlines a criticism and a transforming vision of Latin America and Costa Rica sociocultural contexts during the 60s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lexical availability has been widely used in the Spanish-speaking world for more than two decades. However, only in recent years has there been growing interest in its cognitive aspects. The present article deals with semantic relations of words in lexical availability tests. A group of advanced EFL students, native speakers of Spanish, and a similar group of native speakers of English were examined. These subjects were given a lexical availability test that required them to produce words from different semantic categories. The resulting semantic relations were then made explicit by means of several graphs or semantic networks which showed that EFL students distinguish only large semantic categories, while native speakers of English organise words into highly specific subcategories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study we present a quantitative analysis of the morphosyntactic variation of the analytic (present progressive) and synthetic (simple present) forms of present progressive aspect in monolingual and bilingual Spanish. By way of a contextualized questionnaire previously coded for the linguistic factors of verbal lexical aspect and semantics of the adverb, we identify the contexts of variation of the forms under investigation. In addition, the analysis includes the extralinguistic factors of gender and bilingualism. The results indicate that lexical aspect of the verb, as well as the semantic value of the adverb, are significant factors in the prediction of both forms. Similarly, the factor regarding participant level of bilingualism has a significant effect. We contribute methodologically to the study of the variation of the analytic and synthetic forms of Spanish present progressive aspect given that the instrument employed in the current study controls the linguistic variables and obtains the same number of responses per person, allowing for a comparable evaluation of participants in similar contexts. Finally, we add to the previous literature on this topic by providing evidence that the synthetic and analytic forms appear in variation in a larger number of contexts than previously recognized, allowing for an accurate definition of the variable context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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