The extent to which languages share properties reflecting the non-linguistic constraints of
the speakers who speak them is key to the debate regarding the relationship between …

Aims and Objectives: This study explored the extent to which bilingual language exposure
and practice might alter the way in which bilingual first-generation adult speakers use deictic …

Background Emerging evidence points to rising levels of psychological distress resulting
from the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a need for self-administered, low-cost, and …

This chapter presents an overview of Spanish demonstrative and possessive forms and their
usage in discourse. Both demonstratives and possessives function as determiners in noun …

Demonstratives are cross-linguistically widespread deictic expressions. Demonstrative
systems exhibit variation in number of terms, and parameters affecting their usage. The …

Demonstrative forms, such as this and that, are ubiquitous elements in natural languages, to
the extent that they are generally regarded as a genuinely universal feature of language …

Deictic information is present in every language; yet, there are significant differences as to
how exactly such information is encoded, yielding different indexical systems across …

The limited research on bilinguals' demonstratives suggests that bilingualism may result in a
reduced number of demonstrative forms in bilinguals' linguistic systems as well as a shift in …

Deictic information is present in every language; yet, there are significant differences as to
how exactly such information is encoded, yielding different indexical systems across …

Previous research has shown that having a different number of basic color terms across
languages modulates speakers' color perception. Speakers of languages that have two …