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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"bilingual speakers"”.
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Effects of Language Dominance in Spanish-English Bilingual Speakers
… language dominance on thought and perception in bilingual speakers has received little attention. 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 …
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Secondary cues to the phonological voicing distinction: perception by bilingual speakers
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Have You Changed? Pragmatic Transfer of Back-Channel Behavior by Japanese Bilingual Speakers
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 81574 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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The effect of bilingualism on vocal parameters related to vocal fatigue among Spanish-English bilingual speakers
… research investigating vocal production in bilingual speakers. Acoustic analyses were conducted on speech recordings from the Archive of L1 and L2 Scripted and Spontaneous Transcripts and Recordings (ALLSSTAR). The participants were 11 Spanish-English bilingual speakers (8 males, 3 females). …
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Is cue-based memory retrieval 'good-enough'?: Agreement, comprehension, and implicit prosody in native and bilingual speakers of English
… in native English (L1) and Spanish-English bilingual (L2) speakers. I consolidate research from three distinct areas of inquiry'cognitive processing models, development of reading fluency, and L1/L2 processing strategies'and outline a cohesive and comprehensive processing model that can be …
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Code-Switching among Bilingual Speakers of Cape Muslim Afrikaans and South African English in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
… study was to provide insight into the nature of bilingual talk in the Bo-Kaap community, and to make a useful contribution to the growing body of codeswitching1 (hereafter CS) research generally. Based on natural language data collected during group interviews with members of the community, the …
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Code-switching, Structural change and Convergence: A study of Sesotho in contact with English in Lesotho
… code-switching practices among Sesotho-English bilinguals promote convergence between Sesotho and English. First, the study identifies different types and patterns of code-switching between Sesotho and English and analyses them using Myers-Scotton’s (1993) Matrix Language Frame model and …
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Syntactic Constraints and Social Uses of Greek-English Intrasentential Codeswitching
<p>There are many multilingual speakers who codeswitch in daily conversation. By learning the specific points where this codeswitching occurs, the reasons why the speaker codeswitches are revealed. In obtaining both, one can see how a speaker utilizes two or more languages to convey their point in …
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The acquisition of bare nominals by three populations of Spanish-English bilingual adults
… three different groups of Spanish-English speakers’ knowledge of the distribution of definite articles in both of their languages using a battery of tests that require them to draw on different linguistic abilities. These three groups include native English speakers who learned Spanish …
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Working Memory Effects on Bilingual Sentence Processing
… attachment preferences of English monolingual speakers, Korean monolingual speakers, and late Korean/English bilingual speakers when processing globally ambiguous English and Korean relative clauses. Results showed that both the English monolingual group and the Korean/English bilingual group …
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Effects of Bilingualism on Development of Facets of Phonological Competence
… facets of phonological competence show that the bilingual children outperformed their monolingual peers in segmental sensitivity, but this advantage was transient and had largely disappeared by the second grade. No bilingual effect was observed in the development of suprasegmental sensitivity. …
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Social dynamics of Catalan-Spanish contact in the evolution of Catalonian Spanish
… and linguistic ecologies of the Barcelonan bilingual community. Grounded in a speaker-based theory of language change (cf. Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog 1968) and a comparative sociolinguistics study of language contact (cf. Poplack & Levey 2010), this thesis treats linguistic variation as …
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Reexamining Linguistic Relativity: What Adult Bilinguals Can Teach Us About Culture, Language, And Cognition
… popular notion of linguistic relativity (LR) to bilingual contexts, one would argue that a speaker's first language (L1) influences her thinking and behavior under second language (L2) conditions. According to one interpretation of LR, inter-language relativity, L1 instills in its speakers …
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La Llorona Don't Swim The L.A River: A Trickster's Guide To The Poetics Of The Pit
… the issues of growing up in East LA as a young, bilingual Chicana. These poems are an attempt to capture my experiences through story telling by blending Spanish, English, street slang, and the casual spoken diction. The speaker embodies several versions of the trickster figure: linguistic …
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Development of a Hindi Version of Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V)
… in two groups- the first in English and Hindi in bilingual speakers (16 males and 15 females) with normal voice quality. The CAPE-V ratings in both languages were compared to assess the validity of the Hindi version. The second group consisted of 13 Hindi speakers (10 males, 3 females) with …
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"I can speak German - und Deutsch" : the development and use of code-switching among simultaneous and successive English-German bilingual children
… dissertation is a case-study on English-German bilingual children. It analyses the development and use of code-switching among simultaneous and successive bilingual pre-school children. <br>The first part provides the theoretical background: basic concepts about bilingualism and bilingual …
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Spanish and Greek subjects in contact: Greek as a heritage language in Chile
… Spanish, considering adult monolingual and bilingual speakers of Greek as a heritage/minority language in Chile. The focus is on null and overt third-person subjects in topic-continuity and topic-shift contexts. Such structures involve the interface between syntax and discourse/pragmatics, a …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
… consonant clusters in two populations of bilingual speakers: L1 Brazilian Portuguese/L2 English and L1 Spanish/L2 English. Both language pairings exemplify phonotactic constraint mismatches because English allows both syllable-final stops and word-initial /sC/ clusters. Previous work has …
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Locating functional brain areas with magnetic stimulation and electrophysiological neuroimaging
… nTMS during different naming tasks and in bilingual speakers of Finnish and Swedish, showing that task parameters affect the outcome of nTMS. We also developed novel source localization techniques to analyze EEG and MEG. These methods belong to the family of multiple signal classifiers …
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Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Lexical borrowings from French, English and African languages
… borrowing among Dagara-French and Dagara-English bilingual speakers as a function of age, sex, mobility, and degree of education in a multilingual border community where English and French are official state languages and Dagara is the shared local language. Dagara is a language spoken by about …
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