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This work analyzes the intersections between the notions of geography, power, and resistance, specifically focusing on how these concepts produce and are productive of one another within a French Caribbean context. Focusing on the works...
The main goal of this dissertation is to examine the prosodic differences between English and Spanish that lead to different interpretations of ambiguous relative clauses. Prosody, or the rhythm, stress, and intonation of a spoken...
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...
The topic of identity is a highly debated topic among Jewish scholars as well as a recurrent theme in works of literature written by Jewish authors throughout the world. In the twentieth century several historical events have shaped and...
An on-going debate in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) concerns the role of explicit information (EI) about language in language acquisition. This study explores the role of EI in how instructed second language learners of...
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...
This study explored the potential language loss or maintenance of Spanish gender assignment for school-age bilingual students in a Miami school. Higher accuracy in the use of gender assignment markers was found in fifth graders than...
The poems and translations in this thesis explore the "three strong voices" that poet Federico García Lorca believes the artist should heed: "the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." The...
The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of international-student English language learners (ELLs), situated on a language learning plateau (L2P), who have been exposed to a Growth Mindset Pedagogy with Deliberate Practice....
A partir de la segunda mitad del siglo se veía el cuestionamiento de estas divisiones y la búsqueda de diluir las líneas entre la clase, la raza y el género. Estos cambios fueron provocados por las revoluciones de independencia, los...
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...
Latino/a writing has become one of the fastest growing literary expressions in the United States. The success of this literature relies not only on the quality of the texts written by authors of Hispanic background, but also on the...
This study examined dimensions of written composition by using multiple evaluative approaches such as an adapted 6 + 1 trait scoring, syntactic complexity measures, and productivity measures. It further examined unique relations of oral...
Readings of the economic thought of Cuban poet and social theorist José artà have focused on the portion of his journalistic works that looks like economic writing in a conventional sense. I argue that MartÃ's economic writings are far...
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Gabriele Münters Position und Rolle als einzige weibliche Mitbegründerin der expressionistischen Künstlergruppe Der Blaue Reiter. Zu Beginn wird der künstlerische Hintergrund Münters dargelegt. Weiterhin...
Vocabulary is an essential part of language acquisition. However, heritage speakers and L2 learners learn vocabulary and languages in different environments. A heritage speaker is someone who grows up in a household where a minority...
This dissertation is a translation and critical study of the play María la mosca by the Spanish playwright Miguel Sierra. The study is subdivided into three parts. The first provides an introduction to Sierra's career and work. It...
Some second language acquisition (SLA) scholars have characterized the astronomic rise in usership of language learning applications as a “revolution” of language learning (p. 25). Alongside this rise in usership is also a small but...
When John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, the United States entered a new era of Cold War diplomacy. During the era ridden with propaganda and imminent nuclear apocalypse, the presidential address served as a powerful tool to...
The relations of phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness and vocabulary to word reading and spelling were examined for 304 first-grade children who were receiving differentiated instruction in a Response to Intervention ...
This dissertation examines the experiences of young Frenchwomen from the northeastern département of Moselle who, following the surrender of France to the invading Germans in 1940 and the de facto annexation of Moselle into the Third...
The psycholinguistic model is a theoretical framework that details the speech processing system at various levels of input, storage, and output. In the case of a child with complex speech-language impairment, this study sought to...
La Quête dans le Cuer d'Amours Espris de René d'Anjou Comme Réécriture du Roman de la Rose et de la Queste del Sang Graal: Quête d'Une Nouvelle Éthique Princière
Dans le Livre du Cuer d'Amours espris (1457), René d'Anjo affirme s'être inspiré de deux oeuvres majeures du Moyen Age : le Roman de la Rose (1230-1270) et la Queste del Sang Greal (1225-1230). Le Livre du Cuer partage les qualités d...
This dissertation examines the realization of vowel sequences across word boundaries in Arabic-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in Puerto Rico, as in the phrase hombre inteligente ‘intelligent man’. Spanish and Arabic have...
Second language acquisition has been observed to be variable in its outcome such that, unlike native speakers, all second language learners do not achieve total success. Second language acquisition is made of macro and micro processes....
Cette étude porte sur les écritures féminines relatives aux temps des guerres civiles en Algérie et au Liban. Dans le cadre de la littérature d'urgence, elle compare les oeuvres de onze écrivaines de langue arabe et française dont Assia...
The reason for researching the narrative of Juana Manuela Gorriti and Clorinda Matto de Turner is to understand the role they performed in a patriarchal society at the end of the 19th century and how they are able to project through...
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...
Esta disertación analiza los temas del budismo zen, el yin-yang y la ecologÃa en la obra completa del poeta mexicano Alberto Blanco (1951) para comprobar que todo en el cosmos está conectado y forma parte de un Gran Ser y a la vez que...
In this study, I evaluate and explore the role of the antihero and the subordinate male in the patriarchal society as a marginalized voice throughout discourse at the end of the twentieth century. These discourses are first-person...
The current study investigated the processing and acquisition of Spanish cognates among (L1) English - (L2) Spanish intermediate level bilingual speakers. Research has extensively shown cognates are processed faster and more accurately ...
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...
In the field of psycholinguistics, many studies have provided evidence for non-selectivity of various sub-lexical and lexical units both in same-alphabet bilingualism and in language combinations with different scripts (Dijkstra, ...
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 thesis deals with palatals from Latin into Spanish and French. Specifically, it focuses on the diachronic history of each language with a focus on palatals. I also look at studies that have been conducted concerning palatals, and...
La literatura venezolana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX es el centro de estudio de esta investigación. Específicamente se trata el tema de los inmigrantes italianos, portugueses, españoles y colombianos en Venezuela y su presencia como...
This project investigates the relationships between native language grammar proficiency, language aptitude, and success in learning a second language. It builds on the research of Jim Cummins with the Developmental Interdependence...
The objective of this thesis is to investigate the effects of social factors on the production and acceptance of contact-induced linguistic variables from the Galician-influenced verbal system. Situations of language contact and other...
ABSTRACT This project analyses the multi-functional Spanish SE and features of verb morphology that this particle forces on verbs of reflexives, passives and impersonals . The generative framework has been adopted to examine the...
In this dissertation, I examine a variety of Francophone African novels, films, and autobiographies with female and male child-soldiers as main characters. My corpus includes well-known works such as Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongola, ...
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 study investigates the effects of input and interaction activities on the acquisition of French reflexive verbs. In this research project, I address the following two research questions: 1) Will acquisition and production of French...
Gis'le Pineau a 't' d'crite comme une nouvelle voix guadeloup'enne dans le mouvement de la Cr'olit'. Comme les repr'sentants de ce mouvement, elle s'attache ' inscrire le peuple de son 'le au c'ur de son 'uvre litt'raire et utilise un...
This study includes six narratives published between 1980 and 2009 that offer exemplary representations of a racialized, gendered identification process in the Caribbean, and situates them within a post-colonial Pan-Caribbean literary...
Although various writers have made fleeting references to fairy-tale aspects found in the Marquis de Sade's libertine texts, no one has placed him squarely in the fairy-tale tradition. This thesis argues that Sade's Justine, his maiden...
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...
Esta investigación examina la representación temática de la esclavitud en Puerto Rico antes de la abolición en 1873. El estudio argumenta, que contrario a la crítica, existen textos que documentan el pensamiento decimonónico sobre la...
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