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Gomez, Antonio Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The present study contributes to our understanding of the effects of age and type of linguistic input in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language in adulthood. I examine the Spanish syntax (word order) of three groups of speakers, monolingual Spanish speakers from Mexico and two bilingual English-Spanish speakers born and raised in the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English
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Menard-Warwick, Julia; Palmer, Deborah – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2012
This paper examines the linguistic and cultural development of three US university students in a one-month study-abroad program in Mexico, as represented in their bilingual journals. Through narrative analysis, the paper explores students' varied evaluations of their study-abroad experiences, as well as how these evaluations seemed to affect their…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Study Abroad
Barnes, Hilary – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation project examines the language contact situation of Chipilo, a Veneto-Spanish bilingual community of immigrant origin in central Mexico, focusing both on the social motivations for the sustained bilingualism observed and the linguistic outcomes in the Spanish of the community. Chipilo is a unique community in that Veneto, a…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Ethnicity, Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics