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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"L2 Spanish"”.
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The acquisition of differential object marking in L2 Spanish learners
… (DOM), which is particularly difficult for L2 learners to acquire. DOM is a phenomenon in which some direct objects are morphologically marked to distinguish them from subjects (Comrie, 1979). In Spanish, animate and specific direct objects are marked with the preposition ‘a,’ as in Juan ve …
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Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: findings from learners' production data
… interface phenomenon, in adult learners of Spanish as a foreign language. CLLD implies moving the direct or indirect object to the left periphery of the sentence, and adding a resumptive clitic pronoun that does not add any meaning to the sentence. While a canonical sentence can be used in …
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The reassembly of verbal and nominal morphosyntactic features by novice L1 English-L2 Spanish learners
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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The Impact of pronunciation instruction on phonological global constructs: accentedness, comprehensibility, and intelligibility in L2 Spanish
… and intelligibility––in second language (L2) Spanish speech. These measures are based on listener judgments versus acoustic analysis as a result of the unlikelihood of ultimate attainment (Flege et al., 1995). An instructional intervention for intelligibility focusing on intonation, …
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The Impact of a Study -Abroad Experience on the Acquisition of L2 Spanish Syntax: The Null Subject Parameter
… at the effect of the study-abroad experience on L2 learners' Spanish syntax. Empirical evidence gained from generative studies focusing on the development and acquisition of underlying syntactic competence by L2 learners in an immersed setting would contribute to a clearer picture of the nature …
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Speech style, syllable stress, and the second-language acquisition of Spanish /e/ and /o/
… level on the production of the second-language (L2) Spanish vowels /e/ and /o/. The study addresses traditional descriptions of L2 Spanish (e.g. Stockwell & Bowen, 1965), which claim that English-speaking learners, unlike native speakers (NSs), reduce vowels in unstressed syllables and …
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The Interface Between Instruction Type and Learner Readiness in the Acquisition of Spanish Personal a and the Subjunctive
… of instruction type on the stage development of L2 Spanish learners.
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The perception, production and the effect of explicit instruction in L2 English and Spanish vowels in foreign language (FL) adult learners
Adult L2 language learners struggle with the acquisition of L2 phonological categories due to the early attrition of the ability to acquire sounds (Scovel, 1988) and to the pervasive transfer of L1 phonological categories (Best, 1995; Best & Tyler, 2007; Flege, 1995; Kuhl, 1993; Escudero & Boersma, …
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La adquisición de la categoría funcional determinante y los sustantivos nulos del español infantil.
… suited because their productivity in Spanish has been related to the richness of the morphological paradigm of the Spanish determiners. In this respect, a number of studies focus on the presence of functional categories (e.g. the Determiner Phrase) versus lexical categories (e.g. …
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Syllabification and Visual Word Segmentation in Spanish–English Bilinguals
This dissertation investigates intuitions about Spanish syllable structure and whether or not word segmentation strategies are affected by these syllabic intuitions. The study utilizes monolingual Spanish speakers, L1 Spanish speakers whoare L2 learners of English and L1 English speakers who are L2 …
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On L2 grammar and processing: the case of oblique relative clauses and the Null-Prep phenomenon
… the acquisition of oblique relative clauses in L2 Spanish by English and Moroccan Arabic speakers in order to understand the role of previous linguistic knowledge and its interaction with Universal Grammar on the one hand, and the relationship between grammatical knowledge and its use in …
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Estrategias de atenuación en español L1 y L2 : estudio contrastivo en hablantes españoles y suecos
… investigation of mitigation strategies in spoken Spanish between L1 speakers and advanced Swedish L2 learners. The first aim of our study is a pragmalinguistic analysis and description of the mitigating functions of a number of linguistic elements in our corpus. The second aim comprehends a study …
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Neurophysiologic and Behavioral Measures of Phonetic Perception in Adult Second Language Speakers of Spanish
… groups of listeners. Adult second language (L2) listeners of Spanish were compared with native English listeners with no knowledge of Spanish and native Mexican listeners to determine if they would show the ability to discriminate phonetic distinctions that are present in Spanish and not …
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L2 acquisition of nuclear accent
In acquiring a second language (L2), it has been noted that the phonetics and phonology of an L2 can be difficult for learners to acquire and many sound structures from a learner’s first language (L1) are transferred into the L2, resulting in pronunciation patterns that diverge from the native …
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The Effects of Sentence Writing as Semantic Elaboration on the Allocation of Processing Resources and Second Language Lexical Acquisition
… found between processing second language (L2) input for meaning and for form (VanPatten, 1990), it is hypothesized that semantic elaboration may negatively affect word form learning. To test this hypothesis, a study was conducted operationalizing semantic elaboration as writing new words in …
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Stress in the Beginning Spanish Classroom: An Instructional Study
Typologically, stress in Spanish and English is similar in that both languages have variable word stress. However, research done by Cutler (1986) and Soto-Faraco, Sebastian-Galles, & Cutler (2001) investigating the role of stress on lexical access indicates that there are psycholinguistic …
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language
… alternation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) by L1 Spanish/L2 English and L1 English/L2 Spanish speakers who are learning Portuguese as a third language (L3). This work contributes to a better understanding of which factors determine cross-linguistic influence in the multilingual mind and what the …