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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Languages in contact"”.
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Language and Identity among Adolescent Heritage Spanish Students
… Spanish adolescents who were currently studying in a heritage language program within an urban high school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. These twelve students represented six sibling groups and five different nationalities, specifically Dominican, Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican, Salvadorian, and …
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An investigation into the phenological and morphological integration of German loanwords into Oshiwambo
Oshiwambo, a Bantu language spoken in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola, like other languages in contact, has adapted foreign words from other languages to meet the needs of its daily life vocabularies and activities. This thesis is based on the hypothesis that words borrowed from other …
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How to Ask for a Favor: An Exploration of Speech Act Pragmatics in Heritage Russian
<p>Heritage language (HL) is a linguistic system that arises in the context of early childhood bilingualism, both sequential and simultaneous, when one of the languages is not fully acquired. The performance of speech acts in HLs is yet to be understood, and this dissertation is a first step in …
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Spanish prosody on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border: Cross-generational and Social Variation
… describes and compares the Spanish prosody of bilinguals from the Uruguayan-Brazilian border, by exploring intonational, rhythmic, and tempo variation in Riverense Spanish (RS). The role of generation, socioeconomic background, and place of residence were analyzed as possible predictive factors of …
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Vertimo strategijos perteikiant realijų pavadinimus iš vokiečių į lietuvių kalbą /
… its function and becomes extremely significant in a communicative situation. Problems that arise in the process of cross-cultural communication are closely related to non-linguistic reality and become even more serious when the need to transfer lexical and specific objects defining items, i.e. …
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Variación Sintáctico-Semántica Del Artículo Definido en Sintagmas Nominales en El Español De Hispanohablantes De Herencia
SINOPSIS La comunidad hispana en los Estados Unidos experimenta el contacto lingüístico entre el español —la lengua nativa o heredada— y el inglés —la lengua en la que principalmente ocurre la comunicación en dicha región geográfica—. Como resultado de este contacto, ocurren fenómenos de …
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Vitalita současné galicijštiny
Mgr. Lenka Picková Vitalita současné galicijštiny Abstrakt: Nikdy v historii nedocházelo k tak rychlému vymírání jazyků, jako v současné době. Tato práce si klade za cíl posoudit životaschopnost jednoho z oficiálních jazyků Španělského království, galicijštiny. Po nezbytném vymezení …