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Gross, Megan C.; Castilla-Earls, Anny – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: This study examined the frequency, direction, and structural characteristics of code-switching (CS) during narratives by Spanish-English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) to determine whether children with DLD exhibit unique features in their CS that may inform clinical decision-making. Method:…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays
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Castilla-Earls, Anny; Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa; Fulcher-Rood, Katrina; Barr, Christopher – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to find morphological markers with good diagnostic accuracy to identify developmental language disorders (DLD) in Spanish-English bilingual children. Method: The participants in this study included 66 Spanish-English bilingual children between the ages of 4;0 and 6;11 (years; months) with (n = 33) and without…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Error Patterns, Spanish Speaking, Bilingualism
Mumin, Zahir – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The objective of the current study is to contribute to the larger body of sociophonetic variation research by describing and analyzing Spanish as spoken in a small Puerto Rican community in the US. First, I describe phonological and morphosyntactic features of Spanish as used by four different groups of Puerto Rican informants in Amsterdam, New…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Variation, Bilingualism, Morphology (Languages)
Bookhamer, Kevin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This morphosyntactic dissertation study compares the use of MOOD (indicative & subjunctive) in first- and second-generation Spanish speakers in New York City. The data for this study are from a transcription of naturalistic Spanish conversations with New Yorkers of different generations, representing the six primary Spanish-speaking groups in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish, Syntax, Morphology (Languages)
Erker, Daniel Gerard – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines a major linguistic event underway in New York City. Of its 10 million inhabitants, nearly a third are speakers of Spanish. This community is socially and linguistically diverse: Some speakers are recent arrivals from Latin America while others are lifelong New Yorkers. Some have origins in the Caribbean, the historic source of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Phonemes
Rana Risso, Rocio – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation presents a variationist sociolinguistic study of the variable placement of subject personal pronouns before or after verbs in Spanish in New York City (e.g. "ella canta"; "canta ella", both "she sings"). It pursues a line of inquiry that partially replicates recent work by Otheguy & Zentella…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Barrera-Tobon, Carolina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is a variationist sociolinguistic analysis of the variable word order and prosody of copular constructions ("Nicolas es feliz" versus "'Feliz' es Nicolas," "Es Nicolas 'feliz,'" "Es 'feliz' Nicolas," "Nicolas is 'happy'") in the Spanish of first- and second-generation…
Descriptors: Word Order, Intonation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Gabriele, Alison; Troseth, Erika; Martohardjono, Gita; Otheguy, Ricardo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
The study examines emergent literacy skills in a group of young English Language Learners who are dominant in their native language, Spanish. We investigate the relative contribution of syntactic comprehension in the L1 and L2 to the development of emergent reading skills in English. Participants were bilingual kindergarteners from two public…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Bilingualism