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2. Chapter 1 El uso del lenguaje inclusivo como herramienta de desprestigio de la imagen pública de las políticas españolas
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Guerrero Salazar, Susana
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Comunicación estratégica ,Female leadership ,Gender linguistics ,liderazgo femenino ,Spanish discourse analysis ,Spanish language studies ,Spanish Linguistics ,thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning - Abstract
La prensa de referencia, además de situar los temas en la agenda pública e informar sobre ellos, enfatiza determinados rasgos de estos temas y de sus agentes. La forma continuada en la que se expresan los medios de comunicación y la manera en la que los significados acumulativos se reiteran ayuda a conformar su orientación ideológica. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar los titulares periodísticos que se generan en torno al uso público del denominado lenguaje inclusivo o lenguaje no sexista que hacen tres políticas feministas de izquierda. Se trata de un debate, no lingüístico, sino ideológico y político, donde impera la descortesía. Se demuestra cómo la manera de construir los titulares, la selección léxica y los mecanismos discursivos empleados influyen en el desprestigio de la imagen pública de Carmen Calvo, Irene Monero y Yolanda Díaz. Para llevar a cabo el objetivo fijado se ha usado como herramienta metodológica el Análisis del Discurso y la Lingüística Pragmática y se ha analizado un corpus de 167 titulares de prensa digital española publicados desde febrero de 2018 hasta marzo de 2022, obtenidos de la base de datos DISMUPREN (https://dismupren.com/).
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- 2023
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3. Nuevas Glosas: Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios
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hispanic literature ,spanish linguistics ,mexican literature ,hispanic studies ,latinamerican literature ,Language and Literature - Published
- 2023
4. OVERREGULARIZATION OF IRREGULAR SPANISH VERBAL MORPHOLOGY: THE CASES OF 2SG PRETERIT AND IRREGULAR PAST PARTICIPLES
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Naomi Shin, Jill Morford, Eva Ródriguez-González, Karen Miller, Baker Martínez, Elisabeth, Naomi Shin, Jill Morford, Eva Ródriguez-González, Karen Miller, and Baker Martínez, Elisabeth
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- Spanish language acquisition
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This dissertation investigates a widely observed phenomenon in child language acquisition: overregularization, which occurs when a child applies a regular linguistic pattern where an irregular form is expected (Bybee, 2015), for example, when a child overregularizes irregular 1sg Spanish sé ‘I know’ as sabo. This dissertation adds to the research on the overregularization of Spanish verbal morphology. The population of focus is Spanish-speaking children ranging from the ages of 1;10 – 12;4 with different language backgrounds (e.g., monolingual Spanish children, U.S. child heritage speakers). The studies included address the development of two Spanish morphological forms by focusing on children’s production of second person singular preterit verbs (e.g., dijiste ‘(you) said’) and irregular past participles (e.g., dicho ‘said’). How will children from different language backgrounds overregularize the structures of interest? The results will shed light on children’s acquisition of the two morphological structures, highlighting similarities or differences therein.
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- 2024
5. Por favor, ¿Puedo tener una Coca-cola, por favor? L2 Development of Internal Mitigation in Requests
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Bataller, Rebeca
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second language acquisition ,interlanguage pragmatics ,study abroad ,requests ,internal mitigation in requests ,First and Second Language Acquisition ,Semantics and Pragmatics ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyze the development of internal mitigating devices in requests by a group of second language (L2) learners studying abroad in Spain. The method of data collection was a role-play in which the learners interacted with a Spanish native speaker in two service-encounter request scenarios. The same role-plays were repeated at the end of the study abroad period. A group of Spanish native speakers (NSs) also performed the same role-play task once and their data served as a baseline against which to compare the L2 learners’ performance. The results of this study show that the L2 learners reduced their use of the politeness marker por favor “please” and started using other devices more frequently by the end of their study abroad experience; however, in comparison with the NS group, the range and quantity of their internal devices continued to be much lower.
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- 2016
6. Spanish imperfect subjunctive form –se: Possible identity marker for Spaniards?
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Martillo Viner, Kevin
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LINGUISTIC identity , *SPANISH language , *LATIN Americans , *MODALITY (Linguistics) , *SOCIOLINGUISTICS , *SPANIARDS , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) - Abstract
This paper analyzes use of and linguistic attitudes toward the Spanish imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive –se form (e.g., tuviese 'had' and hubiese tenido 'had had', respectively). The study consists of two phases, P1 and P2. P1 is quantitative in nature and focuses on production of the form; P2 is qualitative in nature and centers on linguistic attitudes associated with –se. P1 data come from 24 Spanish speakers and a semi-controlled oral/written interview. P2 data are from 15 Spanish speakers and a questionnaire. Chi-square results were significant for nationality, i.e., Spaniards used the –se form significantly more than Latin Americans. Sex, modality (oral/written), syntactic context, and verb type were all found insignificant. Qualitative comments from P2 suggest an overall negative association with the –se form. A somewhat weak relationship between the form and Spanish nationality emerged from the Latin American cohort, but not strong enough to suggest a definitive stereotype. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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7. Comunicación estratégica para el ejercicio del liderazgo femenino
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Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina and Brenes Peña, Ester
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Comunicación estratégica ,Female leadership ,Gender linguistics ,liderazgo femenino ,Spanish discourse analysis ,Spanish language studies ,Spanish Linguistics ,thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning - Abstract
This edited collection brings together corpus-based research to provide a detailed analysis of gender and the discourse of women leaders or professionals in domains historically dominated by men, such as business, science, media and politics. Based on the analysis of real texts, the volume seeks to determine which traits are truly characteristic of feminine discourse, how women who have been successful in these domains have used their discourse to create and project their own identity, and what conclusions can be drawn regarding the characteristics of the discourse of successful female leaders. It incorporates a diachronic perspective that helps us understand the evolution of the role and discourse of and about women. The collection will be of interest to researchers in Spanish Applied Linguistics, Hispanic Sociolinguistics and Communication and Gender Studies., Comunicación estratégica para el ejercicio del liderazgo femenino ofrece una importante contribución al estudio de la lingüística de género y análisis del discurso en español. Este monográfi co reúne investigaciones basadas en corpus que proporcionan un análisis detallado del género y el discurso de las mujeres líderes o profesionales en dominios históricamente dominados por hombres, como son los negocios, la ciencia, los medios y la política. Basado en el análisis de textos reales, el volumen busca determinar qué rasgos son verdaderamente características del discurso femenino, cómo las mujeres que han conseguido triunfar en estos dominios han usado su discurso para crear y proyectar su propia identidad y qué conclusiones se pueden obtener acerca de las características del discurso de la mujer líder. Además, incorpora una perspectiva diacrónica que nos ayuda comprender la evolución del papel y el discurso de y sobre las mujeres. La colección será de interés para investigadores en Análisis del Discurso, Español Aplicado a la Lingüística, Sociolingüística Hispánica y Comunicación y Género. Comunicación estratégica para el ejercicio del liderazgo femenino offers an important contribution to the study of gender linguistics and Spanish discourse analysis.
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- 2023
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8. Comparative Romance Linguistics Bibliographies, vol. 62 (2013)
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Imhoff, Brian
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Comparative Romance linguistics ,linguistics bibliographies ,Romance linguistics ,Romanian linguistics ,Spanish linguistics - Abstract
Volume 62 of the Comparative Romance Linguistics Bibliographies contains three contributions. Citation information follows:(1) Butera, Brianna. 2013. Current studies in general Romance linguistics. CRLB 62: 1-17.(2) Imhoff, Brian. 2013. Current studies in Romanian linguistics. CRLB 62: 18-57.(3) Tejedo-Herrero, Fernando. 2013. Current studies in Spanish linguistics. CRLB 62: 58-117.Previous issues and a brief history of the CRLB/CRLN may be consulted at: http://hisp462.tamu.edu/CRLB/.
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- 2013
9. El discurso de Pío Pico de 1847 y los primeros tiempos del español en la California estadounidense
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Lamar Prieto, Covadonga
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Sociolingüística histórica ,español de California ,Pío Pico ,American Literature ,Chicano Studies ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
El presente trabajo estudia el español de California en el siglo XIX desde la perspectiva de la sociolingüística histórica. A partir del análisis de testimonios de Pío Pico, se analizan tanto la historia externa y la historia interna del dialecto del español de Los Ángeles como las presiones sociales en torno al choque entre el inglés y el español que, en 1847, estaba a punto de suceder con motivo del Tratado de Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
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- 2012
10. Dialect Contact in a Los Angeles Public School
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Villarreal, Belén M
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dialect contact ,koineization ,Los Angeles Spanish ,elementary school ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
As is well known, Los Angeles is home to a large number of Spanish-speaking immigrants from a variety of different countries. Studies on the Spanish spoken in LA County have demonstrated the existence of a distinct dialect, a product of koineization and dialect leveling. In this paper we seek to explore the dynamics of such leveling as it occurs in a public elementary school in this area. Taking into consideration the fact that use of Spanish is not permited in the public school classroom, we choose to observe children’s use of this language during recess, lunch and a structured after school program designed to help Spanish speakers improve their English skills. These observations are further supplemented by answers to informal interviews with students froom the after school program. The evidence that we find provides further support for the validity of LA Spanish as a distinct dialect and serves to illuminate, at least in part, the role that the public school setting plays in the creation of linguistic norms.
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- 2012
11. La construcción de la comunidad latina de EE.UU.: comunidades voseantes.
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Viera, Carolina I
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voseo ,dialectos del español ,actitud e identidad lingüística. ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
El “voseo” es una forma de tratamiento frecuente en América Latina que es característica del habla centroamericana. En este trabajo se investiga de qué maneras el aumento demográfico de comunidades de habla voseantes ha cambiado el panorama sociolingüístico hispano de EE.UU. Con este fin, se entrevistó a ocho estudiantes universitarios de origen salvadoreño, argentino y nicaragüense. Las entrevistas se analizaron discursivamente en el marco de la lingüística sistémica funcional. Los resultados de este trabajo aportan información sobre la identidad y actitudes lingüísticas de la comunidad latina del oeste de EE.UU.
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- 2012
12. Revista de Investigación Lingüística
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spanish linguistics ,spanish philology ,Romanic languages ,PC1-5498 ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 ,Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar ,P101-410 - Published
- 2020
13. La degradación del voseo en el siglo XVI: análisis de un documento indiano de 1565
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Diaz, Ana M.
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voseo ,treatment terms ,historical linguistics ,dialectology ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
El voseo de confianza sufre un proceso de degradación entre el siglo XVI y XVII que limita de manera considerable el registro escrito. El presente trabajo analiza este proceso a través del análisis de un documento de 1565 en relación con otros testimonios de los siglos XVI y XVII. El documento es un expediente judicial de Santa Fe (hoy Bogotá, Colombia) que registra la interacción jurídica de los hablantes y revela el uso estratégico de las formas de tratamiento mediante el discurso reproducido. Si bien el voseo es trato de confianza, se considera propio de individuos de rango inferior, y se asocia a situaciones de enfado y pelea.
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- 2010
14. Spanish heritage speaker comprehension and production of the obligatory subjunctive
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Kidhardt, Paul
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Linguistics ,Language ,bilingualism ,identity ,sociolinguistics ,Spanish heritage speakers ,Spanish linguistics ,subjunctive - Abstract
The primary goal of this dissertation is to contribute to a predictive model of Spanish heritage grammars by applying recent advancements in machine learning to ferret out factors and covariates that give rise to the Spanish subjunctive. Given that “[p]redictive models would entail that we have a far better understanding of the various factors that shape heritage grammars” (Lohndal, 2020, p. 31), this dissertation examines how Spanish heritage speakers’ bilingual biographies affect the expression of subjunctive mood morphology in “obligatory,” or lexicosemantically “triggered” volitional, dubative, and comment clause contexts.Using inferential lasso, a series of analyses are performed on data from 95 Central to Southern Californian Spanish heritage speakers (HSs) who took lexicality, grammaticality, and mood production tests. These HSs recognize subjunctive mood morphology, understand grammatical uses of verb mood, and produce the subjunctive 63% of the time on average, yet differences between heritage speakers with respect to proficiency levels are attested. These data demonstrate that felicitous production of the subjunctive is inferentially linked to age and order of acquisition, the Spanish of abuelas (grandmothers), a sense of authenticity when speaking Spanish, cultural affiliations, language use by friends, for religious purposes, in social media, and in self-talk and dreaming. Multilevel modeling and a Twitter corpus are used the explore how Spanish HSs differ from Spanish native speakers (NSs), and how Spanish NS populations differ from each other for the tested constructions. This modeling demonstrates that NSs deliberately make non-normative mood choices, and that HSs and NSs are similarly sensitive to the tested predicate types and to the effects of lexical frequency. This dissertation contributes to the field of HS grammatical research and the model of bilingualism it seeks to achieve by productively using machine learning to identify and detail the effects of bilingual background factors on the production of the subjunctive. It also provides new insights into Spanish native speakers’ non-normative verb mood choices, exactly how and where they differ from HSs, and how and where NS populations differ with respect to the use of the subjunctive for the contexts tested in this study. Finally, this dissertation provides evidence that bilingualism itself and the use of English among HSs can dramatically change grammatical outcomes.
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- 2021
15. Introducción a la gramática metaoperacional
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Solís García, Inmaculada and MATTE BON, Francisco De Asis
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Metaoperational grammar ,Spanish Linguistics ,Interaction ,Information ,Speaker ,Presupposition ,bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics ,bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFP Translation & interpretation - Abstract
Grammar will be explained in this book from a new point of view: that of the speaker. He or she is the architect that makes up the sentence using tools provided by the language and with which he or she performs specific ‘operations’. By using these, the speaker manages the information that he or she believes to be sharing with the listener, transmits his or her attitude towards what is being said or depicts in different ways the world that he or she wants to communicate. Henri Adamzcewski and his school have explored these tools in recent decades: here there is a brief synthesis of their work applied to Spanish.
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- 2020
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16. The Manito Topos Project: Place Naming and Toponymic Silencing in the Sierras of Northern Nuevo México and Southern Colorado
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Damián Vergara Wilson, Enrique Lamadrid, Christian Koops, Catherine Rhodes, Beké, Len N, Damián Vergara Wilson, Enrique Lamadrid, Christian Koops, Catherine Rhodes, and Beké, Len N
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- Nuevomexicano Spanish
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This dissertation reports on documentary research on vernacular toponymies in Manito communities in Nuevo México and Colorado. These toponymies are erased, obscured and delegitimized in official maps. Within the study area, vernacular antecedents for 49.5% of official names for natural features were documented, along with 280 previously unmapped names. These data were compared to the state-sanctioned toponymy to determine a typology of linguistic mechanisms of toponymic silencing. While a majority of official toponyms are based on Manito oral tradition, only 15.4% of the labels for natural features represent unaltered versions of names in that tradition. This dissertation theorizes the conceptual and social meanings of place names in light of cognitive-functional and sociolinguistic theory, and argues the official toponymic inventory results in impoverished construals of named places and misconstruals of Manito linguistic practice and geographic knowledge. Manitos contest this erasure in their everyday toponym usage and surrounding discursive practices.
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- 2023
17. Crowdsourcing for Hispanic Linguistics: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk as a source of Spanish data
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Iván Ortega-Santos
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk ,crowdsourcing ,Spanish Linguistics ,data collection ,research planning ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
Within the field of Linguistics, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing marketplace specializes in computer-based Human Intelligence Tasks, has been praised as a cost efficient source of data for English and other major languages. Spanish is a good candidate due to its presence within the US and beyond. Still, detailed information concerning the linguistic and demographic profile of Spanish-speaking ‘Turkers’ is missing, thus making it difficult for researchers to evaluate whether the Mechanical Turk provides the right environment for their tasks. This paper addresses this gap in our knowledge by developing the first detailed study of the presence of Spanish-speaking workers, focusing on factors relevant for research planning, namely, (socio)linguistically relevant variables and information concerning work habits. The results show that this platform provides access to a fairly active participant pool of both L1 and L2Spanish speakers as well as bilinguals. A brief introduction to how Amazon’s Mechanical Turk works and overview of Hispanic Linguistics projects that have so far used the Mechanical Turk successfully is included.
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- 2019
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18. Español en los Estados Unidos
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Foulis, Elena
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- Language and Literacy Education, Spanish Linguistics
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This book embraces multilingual and translanguaging strategies for learning Spanish. It focuses on the study of Spanish use in the United States, as unique and richly diverse. It is meant to be an introductory level textbook for a mixed audience: those who are heritage and bilingual learners and those who study Spanish as a second language.
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- 2024
19. LA NUEVA ARGUMENTACIÓN DE TWITTER: EL CAMBIO DE PARADIGMA RETÓRICO Y LA INDEPENDENCIA DE CATALUNYA EN TUITS
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Cortes Ferrandez, David
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- Catalunya, Twitter, Critical Discourse Analysis, Argumentation, New Media Discourses, Discourse and Text Linguistics, Spanish Linguistics
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Technology changed our world and shapes our reality in forms that widely differ from the traditional ones. Discourse and persuasion are not an exception. This study analyzes the tweets and oral discourses of eight politicians and social leaders during three of the most important days in the independence struggle between Catalonia and Spain to argue that the way people in power try to persuade their voters is changing, especially in new social networks such as Twitter. The main object of study are the argumentative and persuasion processes that take place both in Twitter and oral discourses from the same politicians and the same day. That way the rhetorical methods used can be properly compared and put into context. In dialogue with other studies about Twitter or the new discourses in the social media, this study presents the New Argumentation of Twitter, which theorizes how politicians adapt their argumentative processes to the new formats and audiences that social networks such as Twitter provide. La Nueva Argumentación de Twitter: el Cambio de Paradigma Retórico y la Independencia de Catalunya en Tuits brings new perspectives to the field of discourse analysis and, specifically, to argumentation studies. Using Critical Discourse Analysis as the main theoretical frame to analyze both the tweets and the oral discourse, this study goes further than the mere discourse and provides an overview of how the new rhetorical paradigm can affect political discourse and their understanding, shedding light onto how power behind discourse is also represented in the new forms of argumentation on Twitter. In summary, throughout the analysis and comparison of more than twenty oral discourses and over two hundred tweets produced by eight political personalities during the Catalonia-Spain struggle in 2017 and 2019 this study introduces the new argumentative paradigm used by politicians in Twitter. Finally, the results show that the ways in which politicians try to persuade in oral discourses and on Twitter are changing and therefore we, as political, social and democratic actors, need to be aware of that. By being able of understanding how we are being persuaded one will become more politically empowered and free, which should result in a better democratic quality.
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- 2024
20. Orillas. Rivista d'Ispanistica
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history of tranlsations ,literacy criticism ,spanish literature ,hispanoamerican literature ,spanish philology ,spanish linguistics ,Language and Literature ,French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature ,PQ1-3999 - Published
- 2018
21. Intonational meaning in Spanish: Production Experiment (full data)
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Fliessbach, Jan
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Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature ,Spanish Linguistics ,Arts and Humanities - Abstract
The audio-files presented here are the results of an audio-enhanced Discourse Completion Task designed to investigate the prosodic similarities and differences between mirative, obvious, and neutral statements in Castilian Spanish as discussed in --- Fliessbach, Jan (accepted): The intonation of expectations. On marked declaratives, exclamatives, and discourse particles in Castilian Spanish. Berlin: Language Science Press (Open Romance Linguistics). They combine with the stimuli already available under https://osf.io/qm28v See license file (license_cc_by_nc_sa.txt) for details on use.
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- 2022
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22. A ten year analysis of dissertation bibliographies from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University
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Gasparotto, Melissa
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- 2014
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23. Perception of unstressed vowel reduction in Central Mexican Spanish
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Bland, Justin Edward
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- Linguistics, Spanish linguistics, speech perception, phonetics, vowel devoicing, vowel reduction, phonology
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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the perception of unstressed vowel reduction (UVR)—also known as vowel devoicing—in Central Mexican Spanish. UVR is a variable, gradient process in which vowels undergo a constellation of phonetic weakening processes including shortening, devoicing, and apparent deletion (Gordon 1998). While it is fairly common and has been well-studied in languages such as Japanese (Beckman and Shoji 1984) and Portuguese (Cunha 2015), its use is more limited in Spanish, and it is primarily associated with two regions: the highland plateau of Central Mexico and the Andean highlands. Although previous literature has examined the production of UVR in Spanish (Dabkowski 2018, Delforge 2008b) and the perception of UVR in other languages (Beckman and Shoji 1984, Meneses and Albano 2015), studies on the perception of UVR in Spanish are limited to Delforge’s (2012) work on language attitudes in Cusco and a small-scale perception task in Perissinotto (1975). This leaves open multiple questions about how Spanish-speaking listeners perceive UVR, what factors influence their perception, and how UVR relates to issues of dialect perception and sociolinguistic awareness.This dissertation therefore seeks to provide an initial but wide-ranging view of the perception of UVR in Central Mexican Spanish by examining multiple aspects of listeners’ perception. This was done by preparing a set of two perception experiments designed to test two overarching goals: first, how linguistic factors like phonetic variation, phonological context, and morphological context affect listeners’ ability to perceive vowels; and second, what role UVR plays in listeners’ dialect classification and language attitudes toward speakers. Additionally, questions of whether non-linguists notice UVR and whether listeners from different dialect areas differ in their perception were tested. The two perception experiments were administered online via Qualtrics, and a total of 84 participants completed either task, hearing a total of 1,558 stimuli and responding to a total of 8,648 question prompts.The results of these experiments contribute to our understanding of the perception of UVR in Spanish and cross-linguistically in several ways. Regarding linguistic factors, the different phonetic weakening processes of devoicing, shortening, and deletion were found to affect perception at different rates, supporting Dabkowski’s (2018) claim that these processes are separate, providing insight into the dialectal distribution of these processes in Spanish, and demonstrating a need to consider these processes separately in future perceptual work. Low vowels and voiceless adjacent consonants were found to aid perception of weakened vowels, demonstrating an effect of phonological context on perception. And participants appeared to expect UVR in a plural -es ending, supporting Lipski’s (1990) claim of a connection between morphology and UVR. Regarding sociolinguistic factors, listeners did use UVR in dialect identification, but they did so in unexpected ways, and listeners did not have strong social attitudes toward UVR, echoing similar results from production studies (Dabkowski 2018, Serrano 2006). Taken together, this dissertation offers an initial but thorough look at the perception of UVR in Spanish that complements previous production work in Spanish as well as previous perception work cross-linguistically.
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- 2023
24. Assessing the double phonemic boundary in the very initial stage of L3 acquisition
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Parrish, Kyle
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L2 Status Factor ,Typological Primacy Model ,Linguistics ,Top-down processing ,Social and Behavioral Sciences ,Typological Linguistics and Linguistic Diversity ,Categorical perception ,Phonetics and Phonology ,First and Second Language Acquisition ,FOS: Languages and literature ,Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature ,Spanish Linguistics ,Arts and Humanities ,Third Language Acquisition - Abstract
This project analyzes the perception and categorization of sounds by Spanish and English bilinguals when they believe they are hearing different languages, including a third language that they do not speak. The project will involve highly proficient adult bilinguals who acquired their second language later in life (after the age of 12). The purpose of this study is to examine whether these bilinguals categorize sounds depending upon the language they believe they are hearing, rather than only the specific acoustic properties of those sounds. This phenomenon has been documented in bilinguals and is thought to be modulated by language mode (Casillas & Simonet, 2018). By using methodology adapted from previous work in the double phonemic boundary (such as Casillas & Simonet, 2018), this project aims to inform debates in third language acquisition; which language is used by bilinguals to perceive sounds in a third language when two are available?
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- 2022
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25. Intonational meaning in Spanish: Production Experiment
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Fliessbach, Jan
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Intonation ,Pragmatics ,Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature ,Spanish Linguistics ,Arts and Humanities ,Prosody ,Discourse ,Discourse Completion ,Spanish ,Semantics - Abstract
The audio-files presented here illustrate stimuli and results of an audio-enhanced Discourse Completion Task designed to investigate the prosodic similarities and differences between mirative, obvious, and neutral statements in Castilian Spanish as discussed in --- Fliessbach, Jan (under review): Intonational meaning in Spanish. A dynamic semantics perspective on prosodically marked declaratives, exclamatives, and discourse particles. Doctoral Thesis. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin.
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- 2022
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26. Intonational meaning in Spanish: PRESEEA Madrid corpus examples
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Fliessbach, Jan
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Intonation ,Particles ,Madrid ,Phonetics ,Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature ,Spanish Linguistics ,Arts and Humanities ,Prosody ,Discourse ,Spanish ,Phonology ,Semantics - Abstract
These are examples from --- PRESEEA (2014-2020): Corpus del Proyecto para el estudio sociolingüístico del español de España y de América. Universidad de Alcalá. Alcalá de Henares. URL: http://preseea.linguas.net, visited on 2020-12-16. --- as cited in --- Fliessbach, Jan (under review): Intonational meaning in Spanish. A dynamic semantics perspective on prosodically marked declaratives, exclamatives, and discourse particles. Doctoral Thesis. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin.
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- 2022
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27. The Development of Discourse Markers in Narrations Written by Spanish Heritage Language Learners: A Case for Explicit and Implicit Instruction
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Eva Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Cristyn Elder, Jose Esteban Hernandez, Todd Hernandez, Cisneros, Mark, Eva Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Cristyn Elder, Jose Esteban Hernandez, Todd Hernandez, and Cisneros, Mark
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- Spanish as a Heritage language
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This Dissertation attempted to determine the types and number of discourse markers (DMs) used in narrations written by Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) learners and if they benefitted from the following pedagogical intervention (i.e., Explicit Instruction + Input Flood + Textual Enhancement) regarding the use of DMs. It also calculated the syntactic complexity, morphosyntactic accuracy, and fluency of their narrations. For this study, 39 SHL learners served as participants: 19 in an Experimental group and 20 in a Control group. All participants wrote two narrations of two short, silent films: a pre-test narration and an immediate post-test narration. Before completing the second narration, the Experimental group watched a video on the uses of DMs while reviewing a sample narration that incorporated implicit instruction strategies. A total of 600 DMs were extracted from the pre- and post-test narrations; results indicated that participants resorted to using the same set of DMs: pero, cuando, luego, entonces, and porque. Results also showed that six participants in the Experimental group incorporated less-familiar, complex (i.e., two- to three-word) DMs in their post-intervention narrations; these DMs were explicitly mentioned and used in the pedagogical intervention. This use of less-familiar DMs suggests that Explicit and Implicit Instruction promote the use of DMs in SHL writing. Lastly, the analysis of the data collected for this Dissertation indicated that Early and Late SHL learners did not differ regarding syntactic complexity and fluency, but they did differ regarding morphosyntactic accuracy. Nevertheless, both groups produced preposition and vocabulary errors at a similar rate.
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- 2022
28. Student Centered Language Teaching: A Focus on Student Identity
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Mano, Rachel
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student interactions ,Other Teacher Education and Professional Development ,language pragmatics ,literacy ,Adult and Continuing Education ,Scholarship of Teaching and Learning ,teacher training ,Modern Languages ,Latin American Languages and Societies ,Online and Distance Education ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Language and Literacy Education ,Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching ,adult education ,Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research ,Curriculum and Instruction ,language ,resistance to language learning ,Higher Education and Teaching ,second language teaching ,spanish ,student collaboration obstacles ,European Languages and Societies ,Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education ,Spanish Linguistics ,Other English Language and Literature - Abstract
This portfolio is a compilation of essays that describe what the writer has come to see as essential topics in second language acquisition. It begins with a professional environment piece, and then a teaching philosophy statement focused on student identity and interaction in the classroom. This is followed by an essay on observations of teaching. The next two sections focus on pragmatic resistance among advanced learners and the importance of preparing learners for peer interaction. The portfolio concludes with an annotated bibliography outlining the main concepts associated with Communicative Language Teaching, a method that is commonly employed in second language teaching.
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- 2022
29. The Manito Topos Project: Place Naming and Toponymic Silencing in the Sierras of Northern Nuevo México and Southern Colorado
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Beké, Len N
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- Nuevomexicano Spanish, place names, documentary linguistics, toponymic silencing, critical toponymy, Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Folklore, Human Geography, Language Description and Documentation, Latin American Languages and Societies, Linguistic Anthropology, Spanish Linguistics
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This dissertation reports on documentary research on vernacular toponymies in Manito communities in Nuevo México and Colorado. These toponymies are erased, obscured and delegitimized in official maps. Within the study area, vernacular antecedents for 49.5% of official names for natural features were documented, along with 280 previously unmapped names. These data were compared to the state-sanctioned toponymy to determine a typology of linguistic mechanisms of toponymic silencing. While a majority of official toponyms are based on Manito oral tradition, only 15.4% of the labels for natural features represent unaltered versions of names in that tradition. This dissertation theorizes the conceptual and social meanings of place names in light of cognitive-functional and sociolinguistic theory, and argues the official toponymic inventory results in impoverished construals of named places and misconstruals of Manito linguistic practice and geographic knowledge. Manitos contest this erasure in their everyday toponym usage and surrounding discursive practices.
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- 2023
30. La Fruta
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Wilson, Jacey
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cuentos ,Fruta ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
Para comprar fruta, obviamente puede ir a una tienda grande. Pero, para comprar la fruta más fresca, deberías encontrar una frutería y comprarlo por ahí. Cuando estaba manejando por las calles del campo en Oregon, vi una frutería y paré para comprar mangos. El hombre que los estaba vendiendo por su camión me dijo que la fruta era de México.
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- 2021
31. El Cactus
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Vurpillat, Jake
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cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Cactus ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
Amanece. Cada día pasa, no lo he visto fallar: El sol brilla tan fuerte y nos da luz. Somos mucho aquí en este desierto, y todos estamos hartos de sus rayos. Los coyotes y pumas duermen, Y los roedores y reptiles se esconden. Pero nosotros no tenemos esa opción, nos quedamos en el sol todo el día. Pero por alguna razón, me gusta. Y después de un día muy largo y caloroso atardece.
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- 2021
32. Las Montañas
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Richman, Tate
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Montaña ,cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
Si yo pudiera ser cualquier cosa, sería un glaciar. Los glaciares son tan bonitos. Cada vez que cae la nieve, trato de atrapar todo la que sea posible. Ojalá que un día me convierta en un glaciar y todo el mundo me vea.
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- 2021
33. El Lápiz
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Baker, Logan
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cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Lápiz ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
Destruir el lápiz es fácil. Hay muchas opciones para hacerlo. Para romperlo en dos pedazos, ponle fuerza en los dos extremos del lápiz. Tire el lápiz por el suelo.
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- 2021
34. El Laptop
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Larson, Elijah
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Laptop ,cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
Tenían aluminio. Tenían plástico. Tenían cobre. Tenían miles de componentes diferentes. Juntaron todo y tenían un laptop.
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- 2021
35. La Hamaca
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Lamoreaux, Anna
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cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics ,Hamaca - Abstract
En la vida temprana de la hamaca, estaba haciendo una excursión con su familia. No planearon bien y una tormenta grande y fuerte crecía en el área. En la conmoción, todas los miembros de su familia se separaron y la hamaca fue dejada a solas en el medio del bosque. No sabía qué hacer cuando no tenía a alguien con qui en estar ni algo a qué agarrarse. No había nadie por cientos de millas. La hamaca sobrevivió la tormenta pero andaba sola por mucho tiempo.
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- 2021
36. Las Montañas
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Streiff, Peyton
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cuentos ,gramática ,Montañas ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
Hay lugares especiales en los cuales el tiempo se detiene. Las montañas son uno de esos lugares. Hay pajaritos que cantan, animales que corren en busqueda de comida y un montañero solito con nada más que el sonido del viento. Arriba de todo, los desafíos y preocupaciones salen volando con la brisa y todo en ese momento está bien.
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- 2021
37. Mi Perrita
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White, Kaleb
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Perrita ,cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
Pe Apepenas su corazón deja de latir tan rápido. La Perrita persuige a una hoja en el viente. rri Tan aburrido está la Perrita cuando no tiene con quien jugar. Que horrible sería esto. ta Corre la perrita como está mirando a una torta.
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- 2021
38. La Vida Secreta de las Cucharas
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Christiansen, Gabriela
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cuentos ,gramática ,cuchara ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
El cuerpo cursivo, cumple con su propósito Cuya cúspide curvada lleva lo sabrosito. Chapulines, champiñones, salchichas para tí Y champaña, chacarero, y concha para para mí No te preocupes, nadie te juzgará rara, Lo racional no importa tanto como la sonrisa en tu cara.
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- 2021
39. Fórmulas de tratamiento en Ocaña, Colombia
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Bohorquez Leon, Liceth
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Ocaña ,Spanish ,Forms of address ,Linguistics ,Spanish Linguistics ,Arts and Humanities ,Colombia ,sociolinguistics ,Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics ,Other Linguistics - Abstract
The paradigm of forms of address has been a recurrent topic of study from a sociolinguistic perspective. Voseo, tuteo and ustedeo are the forms of address used in the Hispanic world. Voseo expreses confidence and familiarity, while tuteo same as voseo, denotes confidence and familiarity. Finally, ustedeo has a connotation of formality, respect and distance. This thesis aims to examine how forms of address are used in Ocaña, Colombia, and the relationship between their use and the social factors that affect the choice of pronoun. To achieve this aim, a sociolinguistic survey was applied to 88 participants. The sociolinguistic variables used in this research were gender, age, place of birth, level of education and socioeconomic status. The analysis revealed that the only variable that did not show statistical significance in any of the scenarios proposed in the survey was socioeconomic status. Additionally, results revealed that the use of usted has a semantic duality since it is used in contexts where one would expect to use a pronoun such as tú and vos, which traditionally denote familiarity. Finally, the results revealed evidence of a possible linguistic change in progress in the direction of increased use of tú by younger people and call into question the idea that vos is the most widely used second-person pronoun in Ocaña.
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- 2021
40. The Effects of multilingualism and Music Experience on Tone and Vowel Discrimination Ability
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Ansari Dezfuly, Niloufar
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Tone discrimination ,Tonal language ,Music experience ,Bilingualism ,Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures ,Vowel discrimination ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,Modern Languages ,Education ,Music Practice ,Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education ,Language and Literacy Education ,Spanish Linguistics ,Auditory sensory memory ,Arts and Humanities ,psychological phenomena and processes ,Music - Abstract
This study investigates the effects of language background (monolingual/bilingual and early/late bilingual exposure), knowledge of a tonal language and music experience on auditory discrimination by employing tone and vowel discrimination tasks. A total number of 8,769 observations were analyzed using logistic regression to answer the following questions: (1) Do vowel and tone discrimination abilities correlate with language background in diverse groups of speakers such as monolinguals and bilinguals of different types (early/late bilinguals)? (2) Does musical training affect tone and vowel discrimination? (3) Does knowledge of tonal language affect tone discrimination? The findings suggest that with regard to vowel discrimination, the only effective variable is early bilingual exposure. In the case of tone discrimination, early bilingual exposure, knowledge of a tonal language and music experience all have positive effects, while bilingualism (independent of early or late bilingual exposure) is associated with less accurate performance. The results suggest the positive impact of early bilingual exposure, knowledge of a tonal language and music experience on enhancing auditory discrimination and auditory sensory memory. Through its focus on the effects of language and music experience on auditory discrimination, this study contributes to the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics.
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- 2021
41. “Actitudes hacia los acentos y la comunidad latina: Un estudio de la percepción del inglés hablado con influencia del acento del español y su efecto en los latinos en los Estados Unidos”
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Shenal, Eden
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- Accent, Discrimination, Latinos in the US, Northern Virginia, Spanish, Latin American Languages and Societies, Modern Languages, Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature, Spanish Linguistics
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The guiding question for the research in this study is as follows: what are the social impacts on Latino individuals speaking accented English as they live, work, and otherwise interact with US-born native English speakers? Are there adverse stereotypes and perceptions about foreign accents that impact their lives, and if so, what are those impacts and the potential long-term consequences of them? La pregunta guía para la investigación en este estudio es la siguiente: ¿cuál es el impacto social de hablar inglés con acento extranjero en personas de origen latino mientras viven, trabajan e interactúan con hablantes nativos de inglés nacidos en los Estados Unidos? ¿Existen estereotipos y percepciones adversas sobre los acentos extranjeros que afectan sus vidas y, de ser así, cuál es el impacto y sus posibles consecuencias a largo plazo?
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- 2023
42. Transfer and Contact-Induced Variation in Child Basque
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Jennifer eAustin
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bilingualism ,language development ,Language contact ,spanish linguistics ,basque linguistics ,Psychology ,BF1-990 - Abstract
Young Basque-speaking children produce Differential Object Marking (DOM) and pre-verbal complementizers in their speech, variants argued to stem from contact with Spanish (Austin, 2006, Rodríguez-Ordóñez, 2013). In this paper, I claim that despite their contact-induced origin, these forms reflect distinct developmental tendencies on the part of the child acquiring Basque. Children's use of pre-verbal complementizers in Basque seems to be a relief strategy that bilingual children employ until they have acquired the post-verbal complementizers in Basque, which are low-frequency morphemes. In contrast, the use of DOM is present in the adult input, although children use this construction to a greater extent than adults do. Finally, I discuss the implications of these findings for the part that child learners play in advancing language change.
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- 2015
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43. Total Physical Response Storytelling with Undergraduate Foreign Language Learners: Exploring Vocabulary Growth
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Jones, Eva M
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- language teaching, spanish, linguistics, applied linguistics, research, Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature, Spanish Linguistics
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This thesis analyzes the effectiveness of two pedagogical techniques used in foreign language teaching on vocabulary growth in a university setting: Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS) and a more traditional approach that does not involve storytelling. Over two sessions taking place a week apart, participants were separated into either the Control group or the Experimental group. Each group learned the same list of vocabulary words in the treatment session. While the Control group learned the target vocabulary through a traditional method, the Experimental group learned the vocabulary through a story. In the introduction, TPRS’s origins are reviewed as well as its basic principles. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and another pedagogical approach known as Presentation, Practice, and Production (PPP) and its relation to this study are also explained. In the literature review, pertinent studies related to this thesis are presented which will highlight the relevance of the present study. In the Methods chapter, participants and materials are presented to demonstrate the exact manner in which everything occurred in the study. In the Procedures chapter, the data collection sessions are described in detail for both the Control and Experimental group. Next, the data are presented, and findings are explained which will show that although the Control group did make higher gains than the Experimental group according to the data, both groups made impressive gains, which does support positively answering our research questions regarding the effectiveness of TPRS as a teaching method in a foreign language classroom in a university setting. Lastly, limitations and conclusions for the study are presented.
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- 2022
44. La Luna
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Swensen, Zachary
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la luna ,cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
La luna ha formado una lista de lugares que quisiera visitar en la Tierra. El primer lugar se llama el lago Titcaca. La luna ha querido visitar este lugar porque es el lago más cercano a la luna por estar en las altas montañas de Bolivia. Durante el curso de la vida de la luna, ha visto muchas cosas extrañas que han pasado en este lago.
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- 2021
45. Las Alarmas de Fuego
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Rose, Zachary
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cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,las alarmas de fuego ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
La alarma de fuego iba en el centro de turísticas de las islas de Galápagos. Esperaba, porque siempre estaba lista para alertar a la gente de una emergencia. La alarma detectó humo y soñó la alarma para salvar a todas las personas.
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- 2021
46. La Comida
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McCubbins, Scotty
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cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics ,la comida - Abstract
La comida quiere estar en un plato muy extravagante. Debe ser un plato que este hecho de porcelana blanca. Debe ser un plato que esté grande para enfatizar a la comida. Es necesario que el plato sea redondo para guardar la comida. Prefiere que el plato este sobre una mesa porque no quiere estar en el piso. Y más que nada es necesario que el plato tenga que estar acompañado por alguien que va a apreciar a la comida.
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- 2021
47. La Pluma
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Johnston, Megan
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cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics ,pluma - Abstract
La pluma existe para escribir. La pluma usa sus ideas para crear mundos e historias. A veces usa sus ideas para dibujar. El propósito de escribir es compartir sus ideas con el mundo por sus escritos. Escribe para hacer un cambio en el mundo. La pluma quiere ayudar a las personas a formar sus ideas para publicarlos.
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- 2021
48. La Historia de Amor del Violin Solito
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Glauser, Annie Jane
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cuentos ,gramática ,violín ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics - Abstract
Un día me encontré con una compañera en la bonita ciudad de Toledo, España. Fuimos de paseo en el pueblo pequeño, buscando aventura pero sin gastar ni usar nuestro dinero. Escalamos un cierro de callejones, escalando más alto y más alto con cada paso. Llegamos a un punto en nuestro viaje donde nos encontramos en un sitio muy bonito que tenía una vista impresionante. Un poco más arriba de este sitio había una tienda. Al verlo, mi compañera de repente dijo “mira! Ese es tu tipo de tienda!” Al verlo le dije, “si, lo es. Y por eso no voy a entrar porque sé que si lo hago no voy a salir.” En ese preciso momento, me agarro de la mano y entramos a la tienda. Al entrar estaba inmediatamente con ganas de compararme un instrumento de esa tienda. Al ver los instrumentos sentí tanta emoción! Aun el dueño me permitió tocar un violín para probarlo. Pero al empezar, noté que estaba desafinada así que decidí afinarlo. Empecé a girar las clavijas y de la nada ... .se rompió! El puente entero se voló en el aire y pegó a un hombre en la tienda.... Salí ese día con un violín en la mano y $600 menos en mi cuenta de banco.
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- 2021
49. La Comida
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Acosta, Fatima
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cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics ,la comida - Abstract
Co Compré mucha comida de la tienda para la fiesta. Los tengo en mi coche. Pongo los comestibles en mi cocina. De lo que compré, voy a dejar los cocos y conchas afuera del refrigerador. Voy a hacer un cóctel y voy a necesitar los cocos para poner el cóctel. Voy a traer mis conchas para el postre. ¡Que rico! Mi También mirando mi comida, yo creo que es la mejor del mundo. Quiero anunciar con un micrófono a todas que sabrosa esta mi comida. Mi comida esta tan buena que creo que la puedo vender por un millón en la fiesta. No estoy mintiendo. Da Yo fue para una tienda para intentar vender mi comida de camino a la fiesta. Cuando estuve allí todos estaban dramáticos y dijeron que mi comida les iba a dar daño a sus estómagos. Cuando llegué a la fiesta en la ciudad más grande, les dije a todos que comieran mi comida. David me dijo que sí no parará de cocinar, el va tirar huevos a mi casa. ¡Qué locura!
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- 2021
50. La Moto de Motocross
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Murdock, Matthew
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cuentos ,gramática ,microrrelatos ,Spanish Linguistics ,moto de motocross - Abstract
A mí me encantan la moto y la adrenalina, a muchos no les gusta porque esta peligrosa pero eso no es cierto, al manejear se siente tranquilo.
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- 2021
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