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Panagiota Margaza; Anna Gavarró – Second Language Research, 2024
Greek and Spanish are two languages that display a similar subject distribution with unergative/unaccusative verbs, but different word orders with focused subjects (SV in Greek and VS in Spanish). Here we consider subject-verb word order in second language (L2) Greek and L2 Spanish in order to test the Interface Hypothesis (IH). To this end, we…
Descriptors: Greek, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Verbs
Ana B. García-Gámez; Óscar Cervilla; Alba Casado; Pedro Macizo – Language Teaching Research, 2024
We evaluate the impact of gestures during the teaching of vocabulary in a foreign language (FL). Spanish speakers learned words in a FL in four gesture conditions according to the relationship between the meaning of the words and the gestures (congruent gestures, incongruent gestures, gestures without meaning, and no gestures). The participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Spanish Speaking, Nonverbal Communication
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
Ristic, Bojana; Mancini, Simona; Molinaro, Nicola; Staub, Adrian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Although research in sentence comprehension has suggested that processing long-distance dependencies involves maintenance between the elements that form the dependency, studies on maintenance of long-distance subject-verb (SV) dependencies are scarce. The few relevant studies have delivered mixed results using self-paced reading or…
Descriptors: Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
Baker, Elisabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The current study investigates Spanish children's variation between the standard and non-standard forms for second person singular preterit --s ("caiste" [approximately equal to] "caístes"). All second person singular preterit forms were extracted from the spontaneous speech of 78 children in Spain and analyzed for the effects…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Spanish, Grammar, Speech Communication
Arnaus Gil, Laia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Literature on early language acquisition has observed that age of onset of acquisition (AoA) is relevant for certain grammatical phenomena. Simultaneous bilinguals receive regular and extensive exposure to two languages from birth (Müller, 2009), whereas sequential child learners get in extensive contact to L[subscript B] once the L[subscript A]…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Variation, Romance Languages, Phrase Structure
Mateu, Victoria Eugenia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2020
The present study is designed to investigate whether children's difficulties with subject-to-subject raising (StSR) are due to intervention effects. We examine English-speaking children's comprehension of StSR with "seem" and Spanish-speaking children's comprehension of StSR with "parecer" 'seem,' a configuration never before…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Intervention, Difficulty Level, English
Pérez-García, Elisa; Sánchez, María Jesús – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
The study assesses the extent to which Spanish students of English as a foreign language (EFL) at a B1+ level (CEFR) are able to communicate in English (target language) joy, sadness, fear, and anger emotions. It focuses on perception, by investigating learners' ability to recognise these emotions in a reading task, and production, by examining…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Anderson, Ana Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Predicting the outcome of language contact situations is complicated by the fact that the primary agents of linguistic change--individual speakers--are unpredictable (van Coetsem, 2000; Thomason, 2001). My dissertation examines the variety of Spanish spoken in Galicia, Spain, where individual language choices are often motivated not by utility but…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Variation, Spanish, Social Influences
Puigdevall, Maite; Walsh, John; Amorrortu, Estibaliz; Ortega, Ane – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
In this paper, we study the phenomenon of linguistic mudes or transformations in linguistic practices, in the case of highly proficient speakers of Irish, Basque and Catalan and we investigate the extent to which speakers in the three contexts share ideologies and experiences related to the process. Such an investigation will deepen understanding…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Irish, Sociolinguistics, Ideology
Carrera, Pilar; Muñoz, Dolores; Caballero, Amparo; Fernández, Itziar; Aguilar, Pilar; Albarracín, Dolores – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2014
Two experiments examined the influence of verb tense on how abstractly people construe action representations. Experiment 1 revealed that written descriptions of several daily events using the simple past tense (vs. simple present tense) resulted in actions and the action's target being seen as less likely and less familiar, respectively. In…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Grammar, Alcohol Abuse
Hijazo-Gascón, Alberto – Language Learning Journal, 2018
This article explores the second language acquisition of motion events, with particular regard to cross-linguistic influence between first and second languages. Oral narratives in Spanish as a second language by native speakers of French, German and Italian are compared, together with narratives by native Spanish speakers. Previous analysis on the…
Descriptors: French, German, Spanish, Italian
Andreu, Llorenc; Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Legaz, Lucia Buil; MacWhinney, Brian – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: This study investigated verb argument structure effects in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Aims: A picture-naming paradigm was used to compare the response times and naming accuracy for nouns and verbs with differing argument structure between Spanish-speaking children with and without language impairment. Methods…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Naming, Children
Gwilliams, Laura E.; Monahan, Philip J.; Samuel, Arthur G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Access to morphological structure during lexical processing has been established across a number of languages; however, it remains unclear which constituents are held as mental representations in the lexicon. The present study examined the auditory recognition of different noun types across 2 experiments. The critical manipulations were…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Grammar, Speech Communication, Word Recognition
Reynolds-Case, Anne – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
The effect of studying abroad on students' language production has been extensively researched. However, a question that has not been addressed is whether study abroad programs lasting six weeks or less offer sufficient time and contact for students to demonstrate measurable development in their command of the language. The current investigation…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Surveys