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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"bilingual speech"”.
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Catching up to multiculturalism: Bilingual and cultural competent practices in speech-language pathology
… clients has resulted in an increased demand for bilingual speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in schools and health care settings. Yet little is known about the experiences and the training needs of these bilingual service providers. This qualitative study used in-depth interviews with seven …
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Code-Switching and Gender: A Longitudinal Study of Spanish/English Speaking Fraternal Boy-Girl Twins
… the focus of previous research on child bilingualism and code-switching; however, it aims to strengthen the previously tenuous connection linking said bilingualism with the speech of fraternal boy/girl twins, who are simultaneously making code choices and reflecting their gender language …
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Usos de Lengua Materna (L1) y Lengua Meta (L2) en un Contexto de Inmersión Real
… indicate that students perceive themselves as a bilingual speech community and take it for granted that their interlocutor is proficient in both languages. Finally, the study suggests some pathway for future research including the reasons for the poor L2 use by students whose supposed proficiency …
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Discourse-Pragmatic Features in English and Spanish Among Bilinguals
… assesses the permeability 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 …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
… work on L2-L1 crosslinguistic influence in speech has focused primarily on segmental effects. To address the issue of the L2-L1 effect on phonotactics, I examine production and perception of “illegal” consonant clusters in two populations of bilingual speakers: L1 Brazilian Portuguese/L2 …
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Motion Event Expression in Bilingual First Language Acquisition
… of motion expression (Talmy 1985, 2000a,b) for bilingual first language acquisition of English (satellite-framing) and French (verb-framing), addressing the following question: How does the expression of motion develop in simultaneous bilingual children in comparison to monolinguals? The …
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The Identification of Spanish-Speaking Children with Speech and Language Handicaps: An Analysis of Current Assessment Practices in Speech and Language Therapy Programs with Proposed Assessment Guidelines
… study were (1) to examine the procedures used by speech-language pathologists in identifying Spanish-speaking students with speech and language handicaps, (2) to determine the extent to which practicing speech-language pathologists are qualified to conduct these evaluations, and (3) to develop a …
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The applicability of implementing Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) with young children with developmental disabilities who reside in the Western Cape and speak Afrikaans or IsiXhosa at home: parent and professional perspectives
… of literature by documenting the perceptions of bilingual Speech and Language Therapists, as well as bilingual parents of children with developmental disabilities, regarding the applicability of EMT within the South African context. Aim: To determine bilingual parents’ and Speech and Language …
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The effect of bilingualism on vocal parameters related to vocal fatigue among Spanish-English bilingual speakers
… It is well-known that language fluency affects speech production; however, there is little information on how it affects voice production. The goal of the current study was to identify the task and acoustic measures that could be applied to future research investigating vocal production in …
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Quichua-Spanish language contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: revisiting media lengua syncretic language practices
… ruling out any influence from other bilingual phenomena. I argue that the only characteristic that distinguishes Media Lengua from other language contact varieties in central Ecuador is the quantity of the overall Spanish borrowings and not the type of processes that might have been …
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English syllable confusion and imitation in Korean bilingual and monolingual children and adults
In the present study, Korean-English bilingual (KEB) and Korean monolingual (KM) children, between the ages of 8 and 13 years, and KEB adults, ages 18 and older, were examined with one speech perception task, called the Nonsense Syllable Confusion Matrix (NSCM) task (Allen, 2005), and two …
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Finanzamt and Termins in Hamburg
… between English and German in sponta-neous speech, with a particular focus on second-language (L2) speakers of Ger-man. Drawing on multiple episodes of a podcast focused on life as a foreign woman in Germany featuring two multilingual speakers, the study examines instances where German …