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This dissertation investigates transfer and markedness in bilingual and L2 Spanish stop-rhotic sequences (e.g., the 'br' in brisa 'breeze'). It also examines the phonetics-phonology interface in Spanish. To this end, it explores the...
A central issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research is the relationship between morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic knowledge among L2 learners. It has been proposed that, L2 language acquisition starts with transfer of L1...
This dissertation examines a previously under-researched factor in second language (L2) lexical processing, namely, grammatical class. Although a wealth of research using monolingual and brain-damaged participants suggests that this...
The ability to comprehend temporal reference is fundamental to human language and cognition. Thus, skilled language comprehension requires sensitivity to grammatical cues such as verbal aspect (Bybee et al., 1994). For L2 Spanish...
To err is human. To self-repair fortunately is also. (Postma, 2000, p. 98) The overarching purpose of this research is to explore whether second language (L2) learners can identify speech errors in a digital recording of their own oral...
This dissertation investigates the locus of language selection during bilingual speech production. In particular, it explores whether distinct language backgrounds, proficiency, and age of acquisition determine language selectivity and...
In the growing field of heritage language acquisition numerous studies have been done in the last twenty years. However, one structure that has not been studied in detail is double-que questions (DQQs) in Spanish. Therefore, this...
This study explores the acquisition of intonation by Spanish second language speakers while on a study abroad program in Valencia, Spain. The investigation consists of two groups: a control group and an instruction group. The instruction...
Codeswitching is commonly practiced by Spanish heritage bilinguals in the United States (Fairchild & Van Hell, 2017). Further, intrasentential codeswitching is the use of more than one language within a clause, as shown in (1) (Sankoff &...
This dissertation explores the language that instructors of a second language (such as Spanish) provide their students. Given that input (i.e., communicative samples of the target language (TL)) is a fundamental concept to all theories...
It is well documented that L2 learners of Spanish have difficulty with inflectional morphology, specifically with gender agreement. Studies have shown that gender agreement is a feature of the second language that is acquired very late ...
This thesis examines the intonational behavior of Galician-Spanish bilinguals in the production of yes/no-questions in Spanish and Galician. Considering that Spanish and Galician have been in contact since the early middle ages (Ramallo, ...
The intonation of Yes-No questions in Puerto Rican and other Caribbean varieties of Spanish has provoked great interest of the investigators, partly because of its unique circumflex contour that is different from the final rising contour...
For several decades, research in instructed second language acquisition (SLA) has focused on identifying the facilitative role that interaction plays in second language (L2) development (e.g., Gass, 1997; Long, 1996; Pica, 1996). Within...
This current study investigated bilingual and second language (L2) lexical processing in sentence context. There is overwhelming evidence from bilingual word recognition studies to support the notion that both languages are active during...
Among the perennial issues confronting instructed SLA researchers, as well as practitioners, is the role that corrective feedback plays in second language acquisition. This study compares two types of corrective feedback that have been...
For almost 20 years, research on Processing Instruction (PI) has shown that PI is an effective tool for altering the processing strategies of learners, and has been generalized over a variety of linguistic structures and for a variety of...
The interdental fricative /θ/, present in North-Central Spain, has proven to be difficult for second language learners to acquire, even after time spent abroad in Spain (Geeslin& Gudmestad, 2008; Knouse, 2012). Explicit pronunciation...
Within instructed second language acquisition (SLA), Processing Instruction (PI) has enjoyed a rigorous research agenda for more than 15 years. Research comparing PI (with or without explicit information about a target linguistic...
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