“Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres” (“Tell me who you go about with and I’ll tell you who you are”) warns that we are judged by the company we keep. My adaptation, “Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres” (“Tell me who you talk with and I’ll tell you who you are”) underscores the defining role of language networks in identity, i.e., “identity is defined as the linguistic constructi...

BACKGROUND CRB1 mutations are reported as cause of severe congenital and early-onset retinal dystrophies (EORD) with different phenotypic manifestations, including Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and cone-rod dystrophies. Comprehensive mutational scanning of the whole gene has been only performed in few cohorts, mainly in LCA patients. Here, we aimed investigating th...

When someone who is learning a second language (L2) produces a sound in the L2 using a familiar, native-language (L1) category, the L2 sound is said to have been "identified with" an L1 sound. Although interlingual identification exerts a powerful influence on L2 pronunciation, it is still poorly understood. Orthographic classification was used here to assess the interlingual identification of ...