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Berry, Grant M.; Ernestus, Mirjam – Second Language Research, 2018
This study investigates the plasticity of phonological boundaries during discourse in a "lingua franca." We tracked the production of 34 Spanish learners of English conversing with two Dutch confederates in English across two speech styles, focusing on incremental changes in two key English vowel contrasts with differential effects of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, English, English (Second Language), Official Languages
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Camacho, Jose – Second Language Research, 1999
Analyzes the grammatical outcome of the conflict speakers of a head-final first language (L1) (Southern Quechua) face when learning a head-initial target (Standard Spanish) language in a naturalistic setting. Proposes that interlanguage sentential word orders reflect a transfer of two independent parameters from the L1: the possibility of having…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Interlanguage, Interviews