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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"dialect acquisition"”.
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THE ELIZA-HIGGINS MODEL: THE IDEOLOGY, RAPPORT AND METHODS OF DIALECT ACQUISITION
… offer 20th century’s most famous example of dialect acquisition: the transformation of Eliza Doolittle under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins. The opportunity to work on Barksdale Theatre’s production of My Fair Lady (2012), both as the actress playing Eliza Doolittle and as a dialect …
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Short-Term Study Abroad And Dialect Acquisition: An Analysis Of The Acquisition Of The Ustedes-Vosotros Verbal Mixing By Study Abroad L2 Learners Of Spanish
… the level of effectiveness through the lens of dialect feature acquisition. Specifically, in southwestern Andalucía, there exists a phenomenon in which local speakers of Spanish mix the pronoun ustedes with the verbal conjugation of the second person plural pronoun, vosotros. The study seeks to …
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Language variation and contact phonetic and phonological aspects of Portuguese of Maputo city
… which (some of) Chambers' (1998) "Eight Rules of Dialect Acquisition", also discussed by Surek-Clark (1998) in her study of Brazilian Portuguese speakers, apply to Mozambique Portuguese learners and if sociolinguistic factors such as age, education, residence and sex, play a significant role in …
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The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants
… variationist sociophonetic account of the acquisition of vernacular English dialect features by adolescent Roma migrants attending a Manchester high school. As one of the first studies of Romanian Roma acquisition of English, this work speaks to ongoing discussions about migration, …
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School-based writing in bidialectal settings and the challenges facing immigrant pupils
… These challenges are greater for immigrant and dialectal pupils who are expected to encode the register in question in a second language (L2) and a second dialect (D2) respectively. While the linguistic challenges facing immigrant and dialectal pupils have been extensively researched, those …
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African American English in urban education: a multimethodological approach to understanding classroom discourse strategies
… and Swords 2006), but rarely has the teachers’ acquisition of non-prestige forms been examined in any form (a notable exception is Fogel and Ehri 2006). Furthermore, no study to date has taken a multimethodological approach to understanding both student and teacher discourse strategies in the …