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Boosting Vocabulary Learning by Verbal Cueing During Sleep

Schreiner, Thomas

In: Cerebral Cortex, 2015, vol. 25, no. 11, p. 4169-4179

Università della Svizzera italiana

What drives the substitutability between native and foreign workers? : evidence about the role of language

Gentili, Elena ; Mazzonna, Fabrizio

This paper investigates the role of language in determining the degree of substitutability between foreign and native workers. To this end, we focus on Switzerland, an immigration-receiving country with four official languages spoken, three of which in common with bordering countries. We modify the model proposed by Ottaviano and Peri (2012) to account for the linguistic background of native...

Université de Fribourg

Can a group of musicians becomposed of women? Generic interpretation of French masculine rolenames in absence and presence of feminine forms.

Gygax, Pascal ; Gabriel, Ute

This study investigates the influence of stereotypical information and the grammatical masculine on the representation of gender in Norwegian by applying a sentence evaluation paradigm. In this study, as in Gygax et al. (2007), participants had to decide whether a second sentence containing explicit information about the gender of one of more of the characters (e.g. …one of the women…) was a...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Derrida e Flusser : No conceito da escrita e o fim da linearidade

Guldin, Rainer

In: Revista Ghrebh, 2008, vol. 11, no. 1, p. -

O artigo explora a conexão entre os trabalhos de Vilém Flusser e Jacques Derrida com respeito ao conceito de escrita, abordando dois momentos específicos no tempo ligados por fontes comuns, métodos análogos e que compartilham o mesmo objetivo: o contexto cultural da metade dos anos sessenta (mid-sixties) que testemunharam a tentativa de quebra da linearidade da poesia concreta usando a...