• Shrinking your deictic system: How far can you go? 

      Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro; Collier, Jacqueline; Vulchanov, Valentin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Languages around the world differ in terms of the number of adnominal and pronominal demonstratives they require, as well as the factors that impact on their felicitous use. Given this cross-linguistic variation in deictic ...
    • Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints 

      Coventry, Kenny R.; Gudde, Harmen B.; Diessel, Holger; Collier, Jacqueline; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Vulchanov, Valentin Ivanov; Todisco, Emanuela; Reile, Maria; Breunesse, Merlijn; Plado, Helen; Bohnemeyer, Juergen; Bsili, Raed; Caldano, Michela; Dekova, Rositsa; Donelson, Katharine; Forker, Diana; Park, Yesol; Pathak, Lekhnath Sharma; Peeters, David; Pizzuto, Gabriella; Serhan, Baris; Apse, Linda; Hesse, Florian; Hoang, Linh; Hoang, Phuong; Igari, Yoko; Kapiley, Keerthana; Haupt-Khutsishvili, Tamar; Kolding, Sara; Priiki, Katri; Mačiukaitytė, Ieva; Mohite, Vaisnavi; Nahkola, Tiina; Tsoi, Sum Yi; Williams, Stefan Daniel; Yasuda, Shunei; Cangelosi, Angelo; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni; Mishra, Ramesh Kumar; Rocca, Roberta; Šķilters, Jurģis; Wallentin, Mikkel; Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė, Eglė; Incel, Ozlem Durmaz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      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 language and cognition. A critical case is ...
    • Variation in first-generation L1 deictic systems: Language attrition and bilingualism effects 

      Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Collier, Jacqueline; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro; Vulchanov, Valentin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      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 demonstratives in their first language ...