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On The Functional Equivalence Of Monolinguals And Bilinguals In “Monolingual Mode”: The Bilingual Anticipation Effect In Picture-Word Processing, Paul Amrhein

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Previous evidence indicates that bilinguals are slowed when an unexpected language switch occurs when they are reading aloud. This anticipation effect was investigated using a picture-word translation task to compare English monolinguals and Spanish-English bilinguals functioning in “monolingual mode.” Monolinguals and half of the bilinguals drew pictures or wrote English words for a picture or English word stimuli; the remaining bilinguals drew pictures or wrote Spanish words for a picture or Spanish word stimuli. Production onset latency was longer in cross-modality translation than within-modality copying, and the increments were equivalent between groups across stimulus and production modalities. Assessed within participants, …

A View From The West: Perceptions Of U.S. Dialects From The Point Of View Of Oregon, Laura Hartley

Faculty Publications - Department of World Languages, Sociology & Cultural Studies

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Deadweight Costs And Intrinsic Wrongs Of Nativism: Economics, Freedom, And Legal Suppression Of Spanish, William W. Bratton, Drucilla L. Cornell

All Faculty Scholarship

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Chinese And Australian Conversational Styles: A Comparative Sociolinguistic Study Of Overlap And Listener Response, Xudong Deng

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This study compares the use of overlap and listener response by Chinese and Australian speakers in their respective intracultural conversations, that is, in conversations between Chinese interlocutors in Mandarin Chinese and between Australians in Australian English. The main purpose of this study is to locate similarities and differences between these two groups of speakers in their use of the two conversational strategies. Another major theme of the thesis is to examine the role of gender in the use of overlap and listener response in conversations of the two languages. The study is based upon the theoretical premise of interactional sociolinguistics …

Lingual Biography And Linguistic Variation, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Communication In Multicultural Settings: Resources And Strategies For Affiliation And Identity, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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The Subjunctive In Miami Cuban Spanish: Bilingualism, Contact And Language Variability (Ph.D. Dissertation, University Of Minnesota), Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch

This sociolinguistic study offers an account of the situation of bilingual Miami and analyzes the usage of subjunctive verb forms across three generations of Miami Cuban Spanish speakers.

The Subjunctive In Miami Cuban Spanish: Bilingualism, Contact, And Language Variability, Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch