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General Analysis Of An Online Language Corpus, Kerwin A. Livingstone
General Analysis Of An Online Language Corpus, Kerwin A. Livingstone
Kerwin A. Livingstone
Corpus-based research is rapidly gaining ground in the field of Applied Linguistics. More interesting is the evidence of many online language corpora which can be easily accessed, with just the click of the mouse. A quick navigation of the Web will produce different kinds of corpora in a vast number of language areas. Given the need to find new and exciting ways to improve the language learning and teaching process, corpus linguistics does have potential for generating significant learner experiences. Taking into consideration the above-mentioned, this paper deals with the general analysis of an online language corpus. The specific corpus …
Spanish And Polish Heritage Speakers In Canada: The Overt Pronoun Constraint, Ewelina Barski
Spanish And Polish Heritage Speakers In Canada: The Overt Pronoun Constraint, Ewelina Barski
Ewelina Barski, PhD
No abstract provided.
An Electropalatography (Epg) Study Of Nasal-Trill/Lateral Sequences In Spanish, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
An Electropalatography (Epg) Study Of Nasal-Trill/Lateral Sequences In Spanish, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Alexei Kochetov
Trills and laterals require relatively precise articulatory and aerodynamic settings that are at least partly incompatible with setting necessary to produce nasal stops. Historically, this incompatibility has often been resolved through assimilation, deletion, or epenthesis in within-word [n+r] and [n+l] clusters (e.g. in Romance). It is expected that similar, yet gradient effects would be observed in across-word or hetero-morphemic sequences of nasals and liquids. This study examines the production of Spanish nasal-liquid sequences using electropalatography (EPG). Linguopalatal contact data were collected from 9 native speakers of Spanish (representing 3 dialects) producing various utterances with nasals before /r/ and /l/ (as …
La Restricción Del Pronombre Explícito En Los Hablantes De Herencia Hispano, Ewelina Barski
La Restricción Del Pronombre Explícito En Los Hablantes De Herencia Hispano, Ewelina Barski
Ewelina Barski, PhD
A talk given on my dissertation topic, discussing Spanish heritage speakers in Canada and their interpretation of the Overt Pronoun Constraint. The talk was presented at a 4th year Spanish linguistics class - Spanish in Contact (SP4412F) - at Western University. The presentation was done in Spanish.
Nasal Variability And Speech Style: An Epg Study Of Word-Final Nasals In Two Spanish Dialects, Laura Colantoni, Alexei Kochetov
Nasal Variability And Speech Style: An Epg Study Of Word-Final Nasals In Two Spanish Dialects, Laura Colantoni, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
Nasal consonants are notoriously prone to variation caused by various phonetic and sociolinguistic factors. A study of nasal variability in Spanish is of particular interest, as Spanish dialects neutralize their three-way nasal place contrast in coda position to either alveolar or velar nasals. For example, in Peninsular and Argentine Spanish final nasals are realized as alveolar, while in Caribbean varieties as velar. A number of sociolinguistic studies have concentrated on nasal variability in velarizing dialects. However, cross-dialectal comparisons have mostly relied on auditory-based transcriptions of sociolinguistic interviews, and articulatory investigations of velarizing Caribbean dialects are so far lacking. The goal …
The Opc In Spanish And Polish Monolingual Speakers, Ewelina Barski
The Opc In Spanish And Polish Monolingual Speakers, Ewelina Barski
Ewelina Barski, PhD
A variety of studies have documented the acquisition of the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) (Montalbetti, 1984) in second language speakers (Kanno 1997, Pérez-Leroux & Glass 1999, Rothman & Iverson, 2007) but none have looked at the OPC from an experimental perspective. This paper takes an experimental approach to the OPC focusing on the mental representation of the OPC in Spanish and Polish monolinguals going beyond L2 speakers and probing into the interpretations that monolinguals assign to pronouns (null and overt) with quantified and referential antecedents. Specifically, I aim to investigate whether there is a difference in how monolinguals treat different …
Coronal Place Contrasts In Argentine And Cuban Spanish: An Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Coronal Place Contrasts In Argentine And Cuban Spanish: An Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Alexei Kochetov
Theoretical and descriptive work on Spanish phonetics and phonology has been largely based on Peninsular varieties. This study uses electropalatography (EPG) to investigate articulatory characteristics of coronal consonant contrasts in Argentine and Cuban Spanish. Simultaneous EPG and acoustic data were collected from five speakers from Buenos Aires (Argentina) and three speakers from Havana (Cuba) reading sentences with various syllable-initial coronal consonants corresponding to the orthographic . As a control, the same data were collected from a single speaker of Peninsular Spanish from Madrid. As expected, the main distinction in both varieties was made between anterior and posterior coronal consonants ((denti-)alveolars …
Gestural Coordination In Spanish /S/ Weakening: An Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Gestural Coordination In Spanish /S/ Weakening: An Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Alexei Kochetov
This study uses electropalatography to investigate syllable-final weakening of /s/ in Argentine Spanish. Results from 5 speakers from Buenos Aires show that the process applies consistently to /s/ before consonants, both within and across words. The phonetic realization of the fricative varies systematically as a function of place of articulation of the following consonant, and is to some extent affected by word boundaries and stress.
Spanish Nasal Assimilation Revisited: A Cross-Dialect Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Spanish Nasal Assimilation Revisited: A Cross-Dialect Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Alexei Kochetov
This study employs electropalatography to investigate the implementation of nasal assimilation in two Spanish dialects (Argentine and Cuban) that differ in the realization of word-final nasals as alveolar or velar. 5 speakers of Argentine and 3 speakers of Cuban Spanish were presented with various utterances containing nasals followed by labial, coronal, and dorsal stops and fricatives under two stress conditions. Results revealed that place assimilation of nasals was consistently accompanied by stricture assimilation. The process was generally categorical, that is, the final alveolar or velar nasal adopted the articulation of the following consonant. Nasal + fricative sequences, however, showed a …
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
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 …
Journal-Based Self-Studies Of L1 English/L2 Spanish Speakers Learning L3 Kichwa In Ecuador And L3 Guaraní In Paraguay, Carol Severino, Joshua J. Thoms
Journal-Based Self-Studies Of L1 English/L2 Spanish Speakers Learning L3 Kichwa In Ecuador And L3 Guaraní In Paraguay, Carol Severino, Joshua J. Thoms
Joshua J. Thoms
Both Carol and Joshua, speakers of L1 English and L2 Spanish, were recently granted opportunities to learn two of the most common indigenous languages in South America–Kichwa and Guaraní. We lived with Spanish-dominant bilingual families who spoke the target language (L3) we were studying. We both kept learning journals recording our language learning progress. After highlighting the tradition of journal-based studies of language learning, and reviewing the perspectives on interaction in second language acquisition, we first describe the contexts for bilingualism in Ecuador and Paraguay. Second, we present data from our journals to illustrate how each of our language acquisition …
Optimality And Inversion In Spanish, Eric Baković