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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Spanish speakers"”.
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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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The use of English requests by native Spanish speakers and its relation to politeness values
There are different modes of interaction between speakers. Some of these differences reflect an individual style of speech behavior but very often, variation in interaction is deeply rooted in the sociocultural norms of speaking of the speaker and the hearer. Universal pragmatic principles, such as …
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Investigation Of The Outcomes Of Delivering Training To Spanish Speakers In Standard Spanish Versus Their Native Dialect
… explored the outcomes of delivering training to Spanish speakers in either their native dialect or in Standard Spanish in the context of a self-running, narrated PowerPoint presentation on a health topic, "The Importance of Vaccinations." The training outcomes that were examined included learning …
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Testing the null subject parameter in adult second language acquisition: A study of Vietnamese and Spanish speakers learning English
… judgment task. Two groups were tested, speakers of Spanish for whom referential subjects may be null because agreement features on the verb identify them, and speakers of Vietnamese for whom subjects may be null because of discourse deletion.
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The acquisition of French morpho-syntactic properties: Cross-linguistic Influence in the Learning of L3 French by Turkish/Spanish speakers who learned English as an L2
… in the learning of L3 French by two groups: L1 speakers of Spanish and L1 speakers of Turkish, both of whom had learned English as an L2. Each group was further sub-divided by their L2 proficiency into lower intermediates (LIs) and advanced (Adv). Using a ‘mixed methods approach’ consisting of …
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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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L1 Transfer in the L2 Acquisition and Processing of the English Genitive Alternation: Combining Learner Corpus and Psycholinguistic Methodologies
… and processing among L1 Japanese and Spanish speakers in this domain, combining learner corpus data with experimental data to address L1 transfer from multiple perspectives and to provide insight into the role of metalanguage in L2 learning. The learner corpus analyses indicate a …
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Speaker Investment, Social Networks and Oral Proficiency of Heritage and Classroom Learners of Spanish
… in shaping the oral proficiency of heritage speakers and classroom learners of Spanish. My research questions are as follows: (1) What impact, if any, does the number of Spanish speakers in a speaker’s social network have on the oral proficiency of heritage and classroom learners of Spanish? …
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Perception and analysis of Spanish accents in English speech
… foreign accent in the English speech of native Spanish speakers: intonation, vowel length, stress, voice onset time (VOT), or segmental accuracy. Nineteen native English speaking listeners rated speech samples from 7 native English speakers and 15 native Spanish speakers for comprehensibility …
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Insights in Depression Screening at a Latino-Serving, Integrated FQHC Clinic
… (46%) patients were screened for depression. Spanish-speakers were screened for depression more often than non-Latinos and Latinos who were English-speakers. Spanish-speakers screened positive for depression 31% less often than English speaking Latinos. Additionally, a chart review was …
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Language Use in a Spanish -English Dual Immersion Classroom: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
… both types of students develop higher levels of Spanish in dual immersion classrooms than in other program types, diglossia may be inevitable. The findings suggest that students may use more Spanish if teachers monitor them more closely during groupwork and if the school encourages them to …
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The Writing of Anglo and Hispanic Fourth and Sixth Graders in Regular, Submersion, and Bilingual Programs
… in a submersion program and with native English speakers in a regular program. The secondary purpose was to investigate the effect that selected mediating variables had on the writing proficiency of native Spanish speakers after the effects of crucial background variables had been accounted for.
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The Effects of Chinese and Spanish Writing Systems on L2 English Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition
… writing system makes unique demands on native speakers, resulting in different cognitive processes. This research examines the visual and phonological processes used by native Spanish and Chinese speakers and how these processes affect their acquisition of English vocabulary and spelling. …
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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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An acoustic and perceptual analysis of vowels preceding final /-s/ deletion in the speech of Granada, Spain and Cartagena, Colombia
… vowel alternation in eastern Andalusian Spanish, particularly, in Granada Spanish and in the Spanish of Cartagena, Colombia. In previous studies of Eastern Andalusian Spanish (Navarro Tomás, 1939; Alonso et al., 1950; Mondéjar, 1970; Salvador, 1964, 1977) it has been claimed that in this …
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Detección de estados de ánimo mediante sentiment analysis en hispanohablantes
… of a computational model designed to detect Spanish speakers’ moods from answers entered by these users in text format. It was used the Keyword Spotting Technique (KST) for text treatment, and Sentiment Analysis based on only Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts for text analysis. A …
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El diptongo / hiato como rasgo contrastivo: un estudio perceptual con los hablantes de herencia de español
… en hablantes de herencia del español. In Spanish, diphthongs and hiatuses represent two distinct types of vocalic segments (Schwegler, Kempff, & Ameal-Guerra, 2010). However, there are examples of words in which the pronunciation of the vocalic sequence as either a diphthong or hiatus …
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Heritage Learners of Mexican Descent in Higher Education: A Qualitative Study of Past and Present Experiences
… were studying or had recently studied advanced Spanish in institutions of higher education. All of the participants had been exposed to Spanish in the home and began their studies in elementary or middle school in the United States. The population of HLs continues to grow and a need to …
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Heritage Learners of Mexican Descent in Higher Education: A Qualitative Study of Past and Present Experiences
… were studying or had recently studied advanced Spanish in institutions of higher education. All of the participants had been exposed to Spanish in the home and began their studies in elementary or middle school in the United States. The population of HLs continues to grow and a need to …
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