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Paola E. Dussias

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Open access Oct 2026

When "they" is singular: The interplay between cognitive and social factors predicts pronoun misinterpretations in bilingual English speakers.

Language change is shaped by cognitive biases as well as by sociolinguistic perceptions of linguistic innovation. Although the use of they as a singular pronoun to refer to a generic referent is not new in English (e.g., "An employee can file a complaint if they need to"), a recent innovation extends this usage to refe...

Manuel F. Pulido, Stanislav Mulík, Paola E. Dussias · Cognition · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Perceiving word structure in time: cross-linguistic evidence from English and Spanish

Patterns of durational variation can offer rich phonetic cues to word structure, such as the number of syllables a word contains, or its morphological structure. In this study, we examine two types of durational cues: direct phonetic cues, which reflect phonological features, such as syllable count, and ancillary morph...

Clara Cohen, Matthew T. Carlson, Paola E. Dussias · Morphology · 0 citations