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Aina Casaponsa; M. Acebo García-Guerrero; Alejandro Martínez; Natalia Ojeda; Guillaume Thierry; Panos Athanasopoulos – Language Learning, 2024
"Taza" in Spanish refers to cups and mugs in English, whereas glass refers to different glass types in Spanish: "copa" and "vaso." It is still unclear whether such categorical distinctions induce early perceptual differences in speakers of different languages. In this study, for the first time, we report symmetrical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, English, Native Speakers
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Giancaspro, David; Perez-Cortes, Silvia; Higdon, Josh – Language Learning, 2022
Previous research indicates that heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish produce both subjunctive and indicative mood in expected subjunctive contexts. The present study sheds new light on this pattern by testing the effects of morphological regularity on HSs' mood production in volitional contexts, where Spanish-dominant speakers (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Spanish, Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages)
Jennifer Robinson Dwyer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examines the effectiveness of study abroad and pragmatic instruction on L2 learners' acquisition of the speech acts of requesting, thanking, and refusing. In the study, speech acts produced by L2 learners of Spanish who studied abroad for six weeks in Buenos Aires, Argentina and L2 learners who received eight weeks of pragmatic…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition
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Fazila Artykbayeva; Aygul Spatay; Abdurassul Raimov; Sholpan Bakirova; Maira Taiteliyeva – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The purpose of this study was to consider the core of the mental lexicon of the Kazakh language based on the analysis of associative dictionaries, to determine the basic lexico-semantic groups of words and to compare the basic lexical layer with value categories. This study uses the following methods of linguocultural, comparative,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Turkic Languages, Nouns
Erin Mauffray – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the acquisition and maintenance of periphrastic and se-passives in second language (L2), heritage (HS), and (Spanish-dominant) native Spanish speakers (NS) by addressing: (i) How accessible are Spanish periphrastic passives (which also exist in English) and se-passives (unique to Spanish) for L2ers and HSs in production?…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Native Language, Native Speakers
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Helena Legaz-Torregrosa; Francisco H. Machancoses; Kris Buyse; M. Carmen Fonseca-Mora – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Skilled adult readers are those who read fluently, but multilingual learners do not always exhibit the same reading proficiency in the different languages they know. Among the variables that influence learners' silent reading fluency, a research trend points to musical aptitude as an individual ability that affects language learners' reading…
Descriptors: Music Reading, Silent Reading, Reading Fluency, Nonverbal Ability
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Shively, Rachel L.; Acevedo, Juan; Cano, Rocio; Etxeberria-Ortego, Izadi – Language Teaching Research, 2022
The present study examined the effect of a pedagogical intervention about humorous verbal irony in Spanish with a mixed group of 40 second language (L2) and heritage speakers of Spanish. Unlike previous studies that have considered only irony comprehension, this project incorporated both comprehension and production of irony into instruction and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Speakers, Humor
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Biondo, Nicoletta; Soilemezidi, Marielena; Mancini, Simona – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
The ability to think about nonpresent time is a crucial aspect of human cognition. Both the past and future imply a temporal displacement of an event outside the "now." They also intrinsically differ: The past refers to inalterable events; the future to alterable events, to possible worlds. Are the past and future processed similarly or…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Time, Language Processing, Sentences
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Diaubalick, Tim; Eibensteiner, Lukas; Salaberry, M. Rafael – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Building up on studies that have revealed L2 transfer of imperfective meaning from one Romance language into another [Salaberry, M. R. (2005). Evidence for transfer of knowledge of aspect from L2 Spanish to L3 Portuguese. In D. Ayoun & R. Salaberry (Eds.), "Tense and aspect in romance languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Morphemes, German, Spanish
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Gatti, Alberta; Graves, Syelle – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
It is often assumed that heritage language learners (HLLs) speak better than they write--by themselves and by educators alike. This article draws on data from writing and oral proficiency ratings plus self-evaluations of 35 Spanish HLLs to investigate: (i) whether Spanish HLLs actually tend to receive higher ratings in speaking than in writing;…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Spanish, Speech Skills, Writing Skills
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Kanwit, Matthew; Geeslin, Kimberly L. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Learners must develop the ability to vary language according to linguistic and situational factors to produce context-appropriate utterances. Likewise, interpreting the additional meaning conveyed through language variation is essential for successful communication. Nevertheless, research on the interpretation of the variable copulas in Spanish is…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Language Proficiency
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Sydney Dickerson; Lori Czerwionka – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
While discourse markers (DMs) are crucial for coherence and interactional competence, previous research suggests that learners' usage of DMs differs from L1 speakers. Prior research has taken either a discourse-functional or interactional approach, yet combining these two methods may provide greater understanding of the unique learner…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers
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Fernández Cuenca, Sara; Jegerski, Jill – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The present study investigated the second language processing of grammatical mood in Spanish. Eye-movement data from a group of advanced proficiency second language users revealed nativelike processing with irregular verb stimuli but not with regular verb stimuli. A comparison group of native speakers showed the expected effect with both types of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rivera Campos, Ahmed; Boyce, Suzanne E.; Hwu, Fenfang; DeMott, Brittany N. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2023
Common descriptions of articulatory requirements for production of the alveolar trill /r/ mainly focus on describing the configuration of the anterior portions of the tongue, while in contrast, the more posterior parts receive limited attention. Understanding how the posterior portions of the tongue move is vital for understanding speech motor…
Descriptors: Human Body, Speech Impairments, Articulation (Speech), Psychomotor Skills
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Grey, Sarah – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study examined individual-level variability in N400 and P600 ERP correlates of native and nonnative language sentence processing of semantic and grammar information. Twenty-six native English-speaking learners of Spanish as a second language were tested. Participants completed sentence reading tasks in English and Spanish during EEG…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Semantics
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