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Gleason, Jesse – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many scholars have noted the disjunction between language instruction at the lower- and upper levels of FL study (Byrnes, 2002; Kraemer, 2008; Lord, 2014; Maxim, 2005; Schultz, 2000; Swaffar & Arens, 2005). Whereas lower-division courses tend to focus primarily on learning grammatical patterns and the "four skills," upper-level…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics
Parra, Marisol; Hoff, Erika; Core, Cynthia – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
The relation of phonological memory to language experience and development was investigated in 41 Spanish-English bilingual first language learners. The children's relative exposure to English and Spanish and their phonological memory for English- and Spanish-like nonwords were assessed at 22 months of age, and their productive vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Memory, Language Enrichment, Language Acquisition
Grey, Sarah; Cox, Jessica G.; Serafini, Ellen J.; Sanz, Cristina – Modern Language Journal, 2015
While research suggests that study abroad (SA) benefits second language (L2) oral fluency, its benefits for other domains are less clear, especially for shorterterm programs, which are becoming more common. Additionally, studies investigating the relationship between cognitive capacity and benefits of SA report inconsistent patterns. In light of…
Descriptors: Role, Individual Differences, Study Abroad, English
Bylund, Emanuel; Abrahamsson, Niclas; Hyltenstam, Kenneth – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
Within the field of SLA, the incidence of nativelikeness in second language (L2) speakers has typically been explained as a function of age of acquisition. An alternative interpretation, however, is that L2 learners do not attain nativelike proficiency because of first language (L1) maintenance. This interpretation has nevertheless remained mostly…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Language Maintenance, Aptitude Tests, Language Aptitude
Gonzalez-Rivera, Melvin – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In this dissertation I discuss several aspects of the syntax, semantics and discourse properties of what I call Spanish verbless clauses -i.e. non-finite utterances with clausal properties: Spanish PredNP "muy listo este tio" "very intelligent this guy", Spanish PP complement clause "me sorprende lo caro del piso" "it amazes me how expensive this…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Spanish, Phrase Structure
Boyer, Valerie E.; Martin, Kathryn Y. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
The purpose of this study was to utilize an invented rule with English language learners (ELLs) in a clinical setting to determine differences based on language and age of the children. The performance was correlated with teacher reports of strong and weak language learning. Using a within-participants design, ELLs of age three to five were taught…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Morphemes, Second Language Learning
Gudmestad, Aarnes – Language Learning, 2012
This investigation connects issues in second language (L2) acquisition to topics in quantitative sociolinguistics by exploring the relationship between native-speaker (NS) and L2 variation. It is the first large-scale analysis of L2 mood use (the subjunctive-indicative contrast) in Spanish. It applies variationist findings on the range of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Semantics, Interlanguage, English (Second Language)
Bock, Kathryn; Carreiras, Manuel; Meseguer, Enrique – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Grammatical agreement makes different demands on speakers of different languages. Being widespread in the languages of the world, the features of agreement systems offer valuable tests of how language affects deep-seated domains of human cognition and categorization. Number agreement is one such domain, with intriguing evidence that typological…
Descriptors: Spanish, Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing
Shin, Naomi Lapidus; Cairns, Helen Smith – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
To investigate the development of the NP selection process, preferences for overt or null Spanish subject pronouns were elicited from 139 children (5;09 to 15;08) and 30 adults in Mexico. Participants were told stories in which consecutive grammatical subjects shared the same referent (same-reference), or did not (switch-reference). In the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics), Perspective Taking, Foreign Countries
Kirk, Rachel W. – Hispania, 2013
This study examines the effects of processing instruction (PI) alone versus PI and output (O) on the acquisition of three conjunctional and infinitival phrases in Spanish. Seventy intermediate and advanced-intermediate high school participants received: 1) PI on three consecutive days (PI + PI + PI);
2) PI for two days and meaning-based output…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Processing, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Viau, Joshua; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language, 2011
In this article we offer up a particular linguistic phenomenon, quantifier-variable binding in Kannada ditransitives, as a proving ground upon which competing claims about learnability can be evaluated with respect to the relative abstractness of children's grammatical knowledge. We first identify one aspect of syntactic representation that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Sagarra, Nuria; Herschensohn, Julia – Language Learning, 2011
This study examines whether adult second language (L2) learners of an ungendered first language (L1) are sensitive to gender congruency (grammatical feature absent in the L1) and noun animacy (semantic feature present in the L1) when processing L2 gender concord and whether L2 proficiency level determines such sensitivity. To address these…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Grammar
Fernandez, Claudia – Hispania, 2011
This study explores how grammar instruction is conceptualized and applied in published Spanish materials. It sought to answer the following questions: What are the approaches to grammar instruction in current, college-level, beginning Spanish textbooks? How do they reflect current perspectives on grammar teaching? Six widely adopted Spanish…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks, Grammar
Stovicek, Thomas William – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study outlines the development of Portuguese and Spanish verbal morphology from Latin in the context of the Hispanic branch of Romance, with a focus on the conjugational classes, whose number has been reduced to only three in this branch of Western Romance. It is innovative in approaching the topic as a study of sequential productive grammars…
Descriptors: Verbs, Linguistic Borrowing, Romance Languages, Morphology (Languages)
Fitzgibbons, Natalia Viktorovna – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates licensing conditions of dependent indefinite pronouns, such as negative concord items and pronouns that depend on the presence of a c-commanding quantifier. In Chapter 2, I examine freestanding negative concord items in Russian. I provide a novel empirical generalization that freestanding negative concord items…
Descriptors: Sentences, Morphemes, Russian, Form Classes (Languages)