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Acquisition Of Main-Clause Wh-Questions In Egyptian Arabic-English And Spanish-English Bilingual Children, Riham H. Mohamed

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This dissertation examines the production and judgment of Egyptian Arabic (henceforth EA) main-clause wh-questions in EA-English bilingual children living in Ontario, Canada, or in the United Kingdom. The three comparison groups are EA monolingual children and EA monolingual adults living in Egypt, and first-generation Egyptian immigrants. The results are compared to previous research on the acquisition of obligatory subject-verb (S-V) inversion in Spanish wh-questions.

The focus of this study is to investigate the potential role of cross-linguistic influence in narrow syntactic structures. Until fairly recently, it was believed that only structures that exhibit syntax-pragmatics interfaces are vulnerable to cross-linguistic influence …

Clitic Doubling: The Case Of Nariño Andean Spanish, Jessica Paola Jurado Eraso

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

This thesis examines the behavior of clitic doubling in Nariñense, a little-studied Andean Spanish variety spoken in the southwest of Colombia, and compares it to well-studied varieties such as standard Peninsular, Rioplatense, and other Andean Spanish varieties. Its aim is to present novel data about clitic doubling in order to shed more light into the extensive literature about this phenomenon in Spanish. Through spontaneous speech recordings obtained from thirty native speakers of Nariñense, 133 sentences involving clitic doubling were analyzed. Features such as agreement matching between the clitic and the doubled NP, use of the preposition a to introduce the …

The Acquisition Of English Phrasal Verbs By Native Spanish Speakers, Ryanne Mikunda

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The Acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs by Native Spanish Speakers

Ryanne Mikunda

Covadonga Sanchez Alvarado

This project investigates native Spanish speakers' acquisition of English phrasal verbs (PVs). A PV consists of a verb and preposition that function as a verb, e.g., pick up, think about, and go on. Prior research shows that because PVs are polysemous and idiomatic, they are difficult for learners of English as a second language to acquire (Moore Hanna, 2012; Garnier & Schmitt, 2016; Rovira Diaz, 2017). Additionally, the English concept of a PV does not exist in Spanish. To better understand how …

The Grammatical Systems Of Attentionworthiness: Positional Signals And Invariant Meanings In Spanish Word Order, Eduardo Ho-Fernández

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation presents a Columbia School analysis of word order phenomena in Spanish. The data was sourced from a corpus of manually collected utterances extracted from six volumes of Latin American short stories written in the twentieth century. The study employs various qualitative and quantitative techniques in order to test the various hypotheses offered as explanations of the distributional problems selected for the study. The observations roughly correspond to word orders that the grammatical tradition describes as having to do with either verbs with one argument (SV, VS, OV, VO) or verbs with two arguments (SVO, OVS, VSO, VOS, SOV, …

Spanish Nominalizations And Case Assignment, Dr. Jeff Renaud, Tania Leal

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Nominalizations are syntactic structures wherein verbal roots co-occur with verbal and nominal properties, classifying them as verbal (VN) (El andar el niño tan tarde) or nominal (NN) (El andar errabundo del niño). While NNs mark agents genitive (del niño), VNs require nominative agents (el niño). NNs co-occur with adjectives (errabundo), whereas VNs co-occur with adverbs (tan tarde). Alexiadou et al. (2011) posit separate syntactic structures for the two. In this study, we investigate via self-paced reading task the types of case available in each structure, providing evidence of …

Subject Object Asymmetries In The Grammar Of Bilingual And Monolingual Spanish Speakers: Evidence Against Connectionism, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Introduction To Hispanic Linguistics, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, D. Heap, A-T. Pérez-Leroux

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Eventive And Stative Passives: The Role Of Transfer In The Acquisition Of Ser And Estar By German And English L1 Speakers, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

This paper reports on an empirical study that examined knowledge of the properties of the two passives in the L2 Spanish grammar of L1 speakers of English and German. The Full Transfer Hypothesis (Schwartz and Sprouse 1994) predicts that learners should be able to acquire the relevant properties, but German speakers may have an advantage in noticing the difference. The study comprised three groups of speakers: an English L1 group, a German L1 group, and a Spanish native speaker control group. The tasks consisted of a Grammaticality Judgment Task and a Sentence Selection Task. Results showed that (a) the English …

Eventive And Stative Passives: The Role Of Transfer In The Acquisition Of Ser And Estar By German And English L1 Speakers, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Methodological Issues In The L2 Acquisition Of A Syntax/Semantics Phenomenon: How To Assess L2 Knowledge Of Mood In Spanish Relative Clauses., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, C. Borgonovo, P. Prévost

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Eventive And Stative Passives In Spanish L2 Acquisition: A Matter Of Aspect, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, E. E. Valenzuela

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Acquisition Of The Spanish Plural By French L2 Speakers: The Role Of Transfer., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Interpretive Deficit? Evidence From The Future Tense In L2 Spanish, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, E. Valenzuela

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Parámetro De Polisíntesis En Náhuatl: ¿Desaparición Por Influencia Del Español?, R. Herrera, A. Holzrichter, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Variability In Contact Spanish: Implications For Second Language Acquisition, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, Cristina Atoche

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Conexionismo O Nativismo? Construcciones Con Se En Hablantes Bilingües., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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The Status Of Ser And Estar In Late And Early Bilingual L2 Spanish., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, E. Valenzuela

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Is The Semantics/Syntax Interface Vulnerable In L2 Acquisition? Focus On Mood Distinctions In Relative Clauses In L2 Spanish., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, C. Borgonovo, P. Prévost

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Knowledge Of Clitic Doubling In Spanish: A Comparison Of Early And Late Bilinguals, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Specificity In Spanish: The Syntax/Semantics Interface In Sla, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, Claudia Borgonovo, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Philippe Prévost, Elena Valenzuela

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Nahuatl And The Polysynthesis Parameter, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, Roberto Herrera, Amanda Holtzrichter

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Acquisition Of Mood Distinctions In L2 Spanish., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, C. Borgonovo, P. Prévost

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Exploring The Relationship Between Transfer And Input In The Acquisition Of The Spanish Passi, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, E. Valenzuela

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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The (Dis)Association Between Morphology And Syntax: The Case Of L2 Spanish., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Knowledge Of Tense In The Mental Representation Of L2 Spanish., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Learners' Competence May Be More Accurate Than We Think., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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Clitic Placement In L2 French: Evidence From Sentence Matching., N. Duffield, L. White, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, S. Montrul, P. Prévost

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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L2 Acquisition Of Spanish Dps: The Status Of Grammatical Features., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, L. White

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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La Position Syntaxique Du Thème Des Verbes À Sujet D’Expérience Datif, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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L2 Acquisition Of Indefinite Object Drop In Spanish., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, P. Guijarro-Fuentes

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

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