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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"language dominance"”.
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Effects of Language Dominance in Spanish-English Bilingual Speakers
… and increasing multilingualism, the effect of 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 …
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Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects
… group whose skills in their heritage language are unlike those of monolinguals or L2 learners of that language. Indeed, much evidence confirms the cognitive and linguistic uniqueness of this population. However, highly proficient heritage speakers may pattern more similarly to another …
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A mixed-method approach to heritage language maintenance in Los Angeles: investigating language dominance, acculturation, and generation at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Multilinguals' language control
… tried to explain how speakers of more than one language (multilinguals) manage to keep their languages separate and to switch from one language to the other depending on the context. This ability of multilingual speakers to use the intended language, while avoiding interference from the other …
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A Causal Analysis of Achievement Models for Language Minority Students in the United States: A Linear Structural Relations (Lisrel) Approach
… validity of a theoretical model linking ethnic-language dominance, socio-economic status, and parental involvement to cognitive achievement and psychological orientation. An unbalanced, multi-group sample was randomly selected from the 1980 High School and Beyond national database. A total of …
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Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals
<p>Recent work in heritage language grammars has shown variability in L1 competence, despite high proficiency in both languages. While sources of variation have been debated, little attention has been given to the role of language dominance. This thesis uses a self-paced listening task to …
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Hemispheric Differences in Semantic Priming Examined Across Handedness Groups
… consistent right-handers have left-hemisphere language dominance, consistent left-handers have right-hemisphere dominance, and inconsistent-handers have no hemispheric dominance. Although the expected interaction was not found, effects of SOA, word association, and visual field were consistent …
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Spanish-Creole characteristics in the dialect of people with African origins in Port Limón, Costa Rica
<p>This research project examines the language spoken by the Afro-Caribbean population in Port Limón, Costa Rica. This language resulted from the cultural blend of peoples from Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, and other Caribbean islands that immigrated to the Atlantic coast region of Costa …
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Identification of Learning Impaired Linguistically Different Students in Rochester, New York, Suburban Schools
… linguistically different students in the area of language dominance/proficiency and IQ measurement are examined. The advantages and disadvantages of assessment tools such as culture free tests, translated tests, regional norms, adaptive scales, criterion reference measures and pluralistic …
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Social dynamics of Catalan-Spanish contact in the evolution of Catalonian Spanish
… 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 ‘structured’ heterogeneity (cf. Labov 1982). Qualitative and …
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Word representations of bilingual adults and children
… that affect bilingual performance with different language tasks. The aim of the investigation is twofold: on the one hand it examines the role of translation similarity in processing words in the two languages. Specifically, if processing of cognates (translations that share form) and non-cognates …
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A Meta-Analysis of Selected Studies on the Effectiveness of Bilingual Education
… education when tests were administered in other languages. When tests were in English, bilingual education students score significantly higher in areas of reading, language skills, mathematics and total achievement; when tested in other languages, they scored significantly higher in reading, …
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Use of the “ba” construction in Heritage Chinese speakers and L2 speakers of Chinese
… and L2 learners of Mandarin Chi-nese. Heritage language speakers are exposed to minority languages from birth, and they are exposed to a majority language later in life (Polinsky & Kagan, 2007), which then causes the L2 to become the dominant language. Other L2 learners tend to retain their L1 …
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EXPLORING DEMOGRAPHIC CORRELATES OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
… including SES, ethnicity, first and second language proficiency levels, language dominance, immigrant and/or generational status, acculturation status, and educational placement history predict ELL student achievement levels (Abedi, 2008). However, the majority of states do not examine these …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
Languages differ in their phonotactic constraints – that is, the numbers, types and combinations of sounds that can occur together in different parts of a syllable. In Brazilian Portuguese, for example, no stop consonant may occur at the end of a syllable, and any syllables in violation of this …
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An analysis of /r/ variation in Singapore English
… the environment of myriad social and substratum language influences. Singapore English (SgE) speakers constantly navigate a multilingual situation which requires them to simultaneously handle the language systems of the society’s main working language, English, and at least one other language …
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The challenges in the intellectualisation of indigenous languages in post-apartheid South Africa: what will it take to give the indigenous languages a directive in the implementation and monitoring of language policy in South Africa?
The language of an individual is another skin in ways that are many, a natural possession of any normal person we use to communicate our ideas and hopes, convey our beliefs and thoughts, explore our traditions and experiences, and improve the community of ours as well as the laws that regulate it. …
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Implementation of South African Government Language Policy in Public Institutions: A Case Study of Siloam Hospital
… implementation of the South African Government Language Policy within public institutions, using Siloam Hospital, a district hospital located in the rural Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, as a case study. Rooted in the constitutional recognition of twelve official languages, including the …
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Comment expliquer le transfert vers la L3? Le rôle de la dominance langagière sur le transfert à la L3
… Jamali et al., 2023). Cette étude porte sur la dominance langagière et son influence sur la source du transfert à la L3 (Fallah et al., 2016; Fallah et Jabbari, 2018; Mayenco et al., 2022; Puig-Mayenco et Rothman, 2020; Lloyd-Smith et al., 2021; Puig-Angelovska et al., 2023; Ramos Feijoo et …
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The effect of full-immersion schooling on nativelikeness and dominance in Palestinian Arabic-American English bilinguals
In second language acquisition, it is well known that an early age of onset and an extensive amount of naturalistic input are key elements promoting successful learning outcomes. What is less well known is what outcomes we can expect when the main source of these elements is full-immersion …
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