{"id":4468,"date":"2012-09-13T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/?page_id=4468"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:30:32","slug":"phd_dissertations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/phd_dissertations\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD DISSERTATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisors: Itziar Laka&amp;Mikel Santesteban<br \/>\nCandidate: Victoria Cano S\u00e1nchez<br \/>\nYear: 2025<br \/>\nTitle: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tesis-Victoria-conP-julio.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Eye-tracking sentence reading patterns in Spanish<\/a> &#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisors: Itziar Laka&amp;Miren Arantzeta<br \/>\nCandidate: Beatriz G\u00f3mez Vidal<br \/>\nYear: 2024<br \/>\nTitle:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Tesis%20Doctoral_BGV.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> Processing Argument Structure: Eye-tracking Evidence from Spanish Native Speakers in the Visual World Paradigm<\/em><\/a><em> &#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisors: Itziar Laka&amp;Adam Zawiszewski<br \/>\nCandidate: Marta De Pedis<br \/>\nYear: 2024<br \/>\nTitle:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Dissertation-Marta-De-Pedis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> Attachment preferences and their processing cost: evaluating the validity of the Pseudorelative-First Hypothesis in Spanish and Italian<\/em><\/a><em> &#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Kepa Erdozia<br \/>\nCandidate: No\u00e8lia Sanahuja Cobacho<br \/>\nYear: 2024<br \/>\nTitle:<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DOCTORAL%20DISSERTATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Facilitating adults\u2019 initial L2 syntax acquisition<\/i> &#8211; The role of cross-linguistic syntactic similarity and lexical processing<\/a> &#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Itziar Laka &amp; Adam Zawiszewski<br \/>\nCandidate: Gillen Mart\u00ednez de la Hidalga<br \/>\nYear: 2021<br \/>\nTitle:\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gillen_Tesia.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>An investigation into the processing of unaccusativity and phi-features: evidence from native and non-native speakers of Basque and Spanish<\/i><\/a> &#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Itziar Laka<br \/>\nCandidate: Sergio L\u00f3pez Sancio<br \/>\nYear: 2020<br \/>\nTitle: <em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/SLS_PhDdissertation_Final.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Understanding Dependencies in Real Time: A Crosslinguistic Investigation of Antecedent Complexity and Dependency Length<\/a> &#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Itziar Laka<br \/>\nCandidate: Luis Pastor Santamar\u00eda<br \/>\nYear: 2019<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Tesis_Luis_Pastor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span lang=\"EU\">Estrategias Facilitadoras del Procesamiento en Lenguas OV-VO \u2013 Evidencia de Corpus en Euskera y Castellano<\/span><\/i><\/a><em> &#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Adam Zawiszewski<br \/>\nCandidate: Nerea Egusquiza Mart\u00ednez<br \/>\nYear: 2019<br \/>\nTitle: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019_Egusquiza-Nerea_Zawiszewski.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memory retrieval: representations and processes involved during sentence comprehension. Evidence from Spanish<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Itziar Laka<br \/>\nCandidate: Idoia Ros<br \/>\nYear: 2018<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ROS_I_PhD-diss_Minimizing dependencies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Minimizing dependencies across languages and speakers. Evidence from Basque, Polish and Spanish and native and non-native bilinguals<\/em><\/a><em>&#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisors: Itziar Laka &amp; Joana Acha<br \/>\nCandidate: Viviana Fratini<br \/>\nYear: 2017<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tesis-Viviana-Fratini.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Procesamiento morfol\u00f3gico flexivo en ni\u00f1as y ni\u00f1os hispanohablantes con dislexia<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Beatriz Fern\u00e1ndez Fen\u00e1ndez<br \/>\nCandidate: Ane Odria<br \/>\nYear: 2017<br \/>\nTitle: <em>Differential Object Marking and datives in Basque syntax &#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisors: Beatriz Fern\u00e1ndez Fen\u00e1ndez &amp; Ricardo Etxepare Iginiz.<br \/>\nCandidate: Ane Berro<br \/>\nYear: 2015<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.es\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Berro_tesia.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Breaking verbs. From event structure to syntactic categories in Basque<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<em>&#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU) &amp; Universit\u00e9 Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/en\/web\/estudiosdeposgrado-graduondokoikasketak\/content\/-\/asset_publisher\/ZcG4\/content\/premios_extraordinarios_2017?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ehu.eus%2Fes%2Fweb%2Festudiosdeposgrado-graduondokoikasketak%2Fdoktoregoko-sari-bereziak%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_W6qU%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-2%26p_p_col_pos%3D1%26p_p_col_count%3D2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Extraordinary Doctoral Award 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Miren Azkarate Villar<br \/>\nCandidate: Maite Guerenabarrena<br \/>\nYear: 2016<br \/>\nTitle: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/addi.ehu.es\/handle\/10810\/18877?locale-attribute=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EAEn 4. DBHko ikasleen euskara erabileran eragiten duten faktoreak<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Miren Azkarate Villar<br \/>\nCandidate: David Lindemann<br \/>\nYear: 2015<br \/>\nTitle: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PhD_Lindemann_Basque.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hiztegigintza Elebiduna: Euskara-Alemana<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Miren Azkarate Villar<br \/>\nCandidate: Arantza Martinez Etxarri<br \/>\nYear: 2015<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tesia-Arantzazu-Martinez-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Izen + egin] aditz lokuzioak: inkorporazio mailak<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity: University of Deusto<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisors: Itziar Laka Mugarza &amp; Gorka Elordieta (co-director)<br \/>\nCandidate Irene de la Cruz Pav\u00eda <em>(International PhD)<\/em><br \/>\nYear: 2012<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.es\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Chunking%20the%20input.pdf\"><em>Chunking the input: on the role of frequency and prosody in the segmentation strategies of adult bilinguals<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0&#8211; (Cum Laude)<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Pello Salaburu<br \/>\nCandidate: Jesus Mari Makazaga<br \/>\nYear: 2009<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.es\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/makazaga.pdf\"><em>Elgoibarko hizkera<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Miren Karmele Azkarate<br \/>\nCandidate: Alicia F\u00e1tima G\u00f3mez S\u00e1nchez<br \/>\nYear: 2008<br \/>\nTitle: <em>Creaci\u00f3n de neologismos en euskera. An\u00e1lisis descriptivo de la terminolog\u00eda de la odontolog\u00eda en lengua vasca y propuestas para la formaci\u00f3n de t\u00e9rminos en la \u00e1mbitos de especialidad<\/em><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"640\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Beatriz Fern\u00e1ndez Fern\u00e1ndez<br \/>\nCandidate: Adam Zawiszewski <em>(Doctor Europeus)<\/em><br \/>\nYear: 2007<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euskara.euskadi.net\/appcont\/tesisDoctoral\/PDFak\/Adam_Zawiszewski_TESIA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Euskaldun elebidunak sintaxia prozesatzen: kasua eta komunztadura neuroirudien bidez (Basque bilinguals processing syntax: case and agreement as revealed by Event-Related Potentials)<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)(UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Itziar Laka Mugarza<br \/>\nCandidate: Kepa Erdocia Uriarte <em>(Doctor Europeus)<\/em><br \/>\nYear: 2006<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euskara.euskadi.net\/w10aTesDocWar\/tesisDoctoralJSP\/w10aConsultarTesisDoctoralLookUpDispath.do?clave=accionVer148\"><em>Euskal hitz hurrenkeren prozesamendua: jokabidezko eta GLP ebidentzia, [Processing Word order in Basque: conductual and ERP evidence]<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisors: Eneko Agirre &amp; Ibon Sarasola (co-director)<br \/>\nCandidate: Mikel Lersundi Ayestaran<br \/>\nYear: 2005<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.es\/HEB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mikel_lersundi_TESIS.pdf\"><em>Ezagutza-base lexikala eraikitzeko euskal hiztegiko definizioen azterketa sintaktiko-semantikoa<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"745\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Supervisor: Miren Azkarate Villar<br \/>\nCandidate: Antton Elosegi<br \/>\nYear: 2002<br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/tel.archives-ouvertes.fr\/tel-00103284\/en\/\"><em>Zuzenbideko Euskal hizkera berezia. Lege-corpus itzuli bateko terminologiaren azterketa linguistikoa eta terminologikoa<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nUniversity: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU)<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Supervisors: Itziar Laka&amp;Mikel Santesteban Candidate: Victoria Cano S\u00e1nchez Year: 2025 Title: AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Eye-tracking sentence reading patterns in Spanish &#8211; (Cum Laude) University: University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU) Supervisors: Itziar Laka&amp;Miren Arantzeta Candidate: Beatriz G\u00f3mez &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/phd_dissertations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17515,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4468\/revisions\/17515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehu.eus\/HEB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}