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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Spanish/English bilinguals"”.
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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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Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Nova Multilingual Neuropsychological Battery (NMNB)
… test designed to measure cognitive abilities in Spanish/English bilinguals. The instrument was developed taking into consideration cultural variables believed to influence neuropsychological test performance and it includes a Spanish and an English version. It is comprised of tasks measuring …
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Effects of Language Dominance in Spanish-English Bilingual Speakers
… This study examines the semantic networks of Spanish-English bilingual adults and monolingual English-speaking peers to determine whether language dominance structures the semantic space of a bilingual speaker to more closely match the semantic space of a monolingual speaker of the dominant …
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Contextual effects of varying amounts of language-mixed text on translation and comprehension by monolinguals and bilinguals
… the effects of discourse context information on English Monolinguals' and Spanish-English Bilinguals' ability to 1) translate Spanish and Finnish vocabulary words and 2) comprehend inferential and factual comprehension questions based on language-mixed prose. Language-mixed (i.e., codeswitched) …
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Discourse-Pragmatic Features in English and Spanish Among Bilinguals
… of discourse in the speech of eighteen Spanish-English bilinguals from Southern Arizona. In doing so, it analyzes the linguistic and social conditioning of three discourse-pragmatic features that are prominent in both languages. These discourse-pragmatic features include the discourse …
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Idiom Comprehension In Bilingual And Monolingual Adolescents
… had not been studied in this manner: bilingual (Spanish-English) adolescents in West Central Florida and their monolingual (English-only) peers. The GEM posits that idiom comprehension develops in tandem with other linguistic development requiring inferencing ability; and that idiom x …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… focuses on preterit and imperfect usage in the Spanish of Chilean-American heritage speakers. Spanish heritage speakers in the United States are second generation bilinguals who learn Spanish in the home from Spanish speaking parents and learn English from school and the community (Montrul 2002; …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… focuses on preterit and imperfect usage in the Spanish of Chilean-American heritage speakers. Spanish heritage speakers in the United States are second generation bilinguals who learn Spanish in the home from Spanish speaking parents and learn English from school and the community (Montrul 2002; …
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L2 Phonetic Detail in L1 Lexical Processing
The present dissertation explores how Spanish-English bilinguals process Spanish words with English-like phonetic detail (English-accented Spanish). Previous work shows that mismatched phonetic detail and unfamiliar accents cause delayed and disrupted lexical access during spoken word recognition, …
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Translanguaging and identities: Bilingual language and literacy practices in a Spanish-English two-way immersion classroom
… present study is to understand the complexity of bilinguals’ language and literacy practices in relation to the dynamics of identity construction in Spanish-English two- way immersion practices. For this reason, using a comparative case study, this study investigates both Spanish-English …
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Tracing language variation in Spanish: A multidisciplinary approach
… as animacy or referentiality (Aissen, 2008). In Spanish, the language that is the subject of this dissertation, animate and specific objects are marked with DOM, as in Juan ve a María ‘Juan sees DOM María’. However, as suggested by several recent studies (von Heusinguer & Kaiser, 2005; Tippets, …
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Neural Encoding of Continuous Attended Speech in Monolingual and Bilingual Listeners
… behavioural differences between monolinguals and bilinguals on tasks of selective attention remain controversial, the experience of learning and using a second language undoubtedly represents a major environmental demand that can impact the way the brain selects and processes information. Here, I …
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Language sample analysis for Spanish speakers
The purpose of this project was to develop a Spanish language sample analysis (LSA) scoring procedure for English-Spanish bilinguals used to guide clinicians in developing language goals and monitoring progress on those goals. A Spanish LSA procedure was created and was tested on 20 typically …
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Developmental patterns of Spanish grammatical morphemes and mean length of utterance in bilingual children
… norms for grammatical morpheme development in Spanish for Spanish-English bilingual children ages 4;0-7;6. This study uses secondary data analysis based on two existing datasets. Participants included 334 Spanish-English bilingual children that were recruited from school districts in Texas, …