Moreover, the simple discrimination tasks employed so far do not explicitly control processing demands, thus task difficulty and degree of top-down linguistic focus might vary drastically between the 2 conditions, which, in turn, would affect the profile of cortical responses before versus after the subjects' switch to speech mode.
The need for top-down attentional selection due to the competition between multiple stimulus dimensions (for discussion, see Desimone and Duncan 1995) and the lack of relevant visual information in our experiment have likely emphasized the tuning effect of top-down linguistic focus.
Does the city's out-of-home drinking culture also break down along linguistic lines, and are those stereotypes about who drinks how and how much valid?
Educ'alcool's director general Hubert Sacy tells VICE that when it comes to drinking booze, "there are three Montreals," broken down along linguistic lines, Anglo, Franco and Allo.
My bet against Big Data, I suppose, boils down to a linguistic bias.
(Rooney) 'Chinglish' (in previews; opens on Thursday) David Henry Hwang breaks down cultural and linguistic barriers between America and China in this new comedy about a Midwestern businessman attempting to secure a lucrative contract in Guiyang, a provincial capital.
(Rooney) 'Chinglish' (previews start on Tuesday; opens on Oct. 27) David Henry Hwang breaks down cultural and linguistic barriers between America and China in this new comedy about a Midwestern businessman attempting to secure a lucrative contract in Guiyang, a provincial capital.
Argentina remains the intellectual hub of the South American game – six of the 10 Conmebol nations have an Argentinian coach – something that is not only down to linguistic issues.
By the time Robert and his sister Lynda, who is 13 months his junior, were born, they had moved back to Francophone Quebec, resulting in a family that Lepage now refers to as "a metaphor for Canada", split down the linguistic divide.
