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In every aspect of life, 19th century Spain was not peaceful. Despite tumultuous times, members of the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy) managed to publish a new edition of the Diccionario de la lengua castellana (drae 1817). A notable achievement, they published one of the best editions of the academic dictionary ever. In this paper, I analyze the introduction of words and their meaning from the region of Andalusia. The diatopic labels corresponding to this Spanish region are used widely. I explain the existence of this dialectal lexicon in drae (1817) by connecting it to historical events around 1812. This was the same year when liberal politicians and intellectuals established the Spanish Constitution of 1812 (Constitución política de la monarquía española) in the Andalusian city of Cádiz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a longitudinal analysis of L1 acquisition of Spanish stress based on the development of Spanish prosodic structure during the first months of language acquisition. Very little research has been done on Spanish stress and prosodic development. The scant literature on the matter in essence contemplates two hypotheses: trochaic infant bias, which postulates an innate trochaic default prosodic form; and a neutral hypothesis, by which stress is developed following targetlike stress patterns. Since there is no consensus in Spanish developmental studies on the way children develop stress, the present work contributes an in-depth study of the issue by examining the production of two Spanish-speaking children during from age 1;7 to 2;3, including additional data from 1 child at 1;10. The study did not find support for the innate trochaic hypothesis in Spanish. The children, however, exhibit mastery of the Spanish's stress patterns from the onset of their production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a programmatic proposal for the characterisation, or profiling, of editorials from the Spanish newspaper El País on the dimension of the explicit signalling of intersentential relations for purposes of comparison. The study adopts an integrated discourse as process approach to the description of language, in conjunction with some of the basic tenets of corpus linguistics. The paper advocates strict specificity and differentiation of text types in such studies and a rigorous respect for the intrasentential, the intersentential and the interparagraph segmentation which authors impose on their texts. Figures are offered for the frequency of selected connectors in a corpus of one whole year of editorials from this newspaper, together with information relating to their sentence and paragraph position. Additional consideration is given to important alternative means for the expression of intersentential relations and to questions related to corpus extent in studies of this nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to be a direct contribution to Spanish teachers wanting to resolve phonetic problems in an Italian-speaking classroom. After examining the concept of phonetic correction and the various strategies to achieve it, the paper proposes a five-point plan inspired on the principles of the verbo-tonal method and based on the differences between Spanish and Italian regarding tension and quantity and on the ratio between the final result and the time required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the history of the Spanish particle aparte. We describe this evolution from an adverbial usage (with spatial and modal values) to its current function as an additive discourse marker, taking into account its special character, which distinguishes aparte from the rest of the elements included in the subsystem of additive adverbs. As we show, the evolution of aparte is a typical instance of a subjectification process. Certain questions arise as to its adscription to a given syntactic category in certain contexts and about its lexicographic description in the Nuevo Diccionario Histórico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish particle lo can appear in three different syntactic structures which are described in this paper. Depending on the structure in which it is inserted, lo can have three different functions: pronoun, intensifier and emphatic particle/element. At the same time, the Norwegian definite neutrum particle det is analysed, in order to see to what extent the Norwegian det covers the three functions the Spanish lo can have .n [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The teaching of languages, in order to he successful, requires access to up-to-date samples of the different registers in which they are employed. In the case of Spanish as a second language, recently introduced formally in Spain, the linguistic and discursive synchronic description of the register of language used for instruction has yet to be carried out, This paper presents a word frequency list with 5.496 word families gathered using a school textbook as the linguistic base. This study initiates new research into the language of instruction vocabulary and seeks to contribute to a better understanding of this register in order to aid in the teaching of Spanish as a Second Language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper was intended as an inquiry into the role played by L2 proficiency in the way writers allocate their time to the formulation of their ideas throughtout their L1 and L2 composition processes. The sample was made up of 21 Spanish EFL learners divided into three L2 proficiency levels. Each participant wrote one composition in English and another one in Spanish verbalising their thoughts aloud. The data showed that some components of the formulation process are independent of L2 proficiency while others show a clear developmental profile. These results are described and interpreted in the light of the relevant literature and a number of theoretical and methodological conclusions are drawn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]