Auteur: Jose Manuel Igoa

Montserrat Sanz holds a PhD in Linguistics and Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She is a Full Professor in the Spanish Department at the Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan. Her research on theoretical linguistics has focused on the syntax/semantics interface under the Minimalist framework. She authored the book Events and Predication: A New Approach to Syntactic Processing in English and Spanish, and has published articles on linguistics and psycholinguistics in several journals. Since the year 2000, she has directed a research team that explores the acquisition of Spanish by native speakers of Japanese.José Manuel Igoa holds a PhD in Psychology. He teaches Psycholinguistics and related subjects, like Cognitive Psychology, Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition, to undergraduate and graduate students at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. He co-authored a Spanish handbook on the psychology of language and has published book chapters and journal articles on word and sentence comprehension and production, figurative language understanding and bilingual language processing. His research interests cover various topics in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics.