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Mental Models Of The Nature Of Language In Kunming, China, Ellie Ash
Mental Models Of The Nature Of Language In Kunming, China, Ellie Ash
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The focus of this study is laypeople's mental models of the varieties of Chinese language. Chinese contains many varieties, primarily dividable into Putonghua (Standard Mandarin; hereafter PTH) and Fangyan (“topolect” 1). The Fangyan are traditionally considered “dialects of Chinese” by both Chinese and Western sources. Many Western linguists note that the dialects span a linguistic range that compares with the range of the Romance languages, but concede the label “dialects” because they share a written standard and because China is considered to be a single country, and especially because the Chinese themselves consider all the Fangyan to be varieties of …
La Hispanización Y La Identidad Hispana En Filipinas, David Sánchez-Jiménez
La Hispanización Y La Identidad Hispana En Filipinas, David Sánchez-Jiménez
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Acquisition Of Spanish Gender Agreement In Two Learning Contexts: Study Abroad And At Home., Christina Isabelli
Acquisition Of Spanish Gender Agreement In Two Learning Contexts: Study Abroad And At Home., Christina Isabelli
Scholarship
The goal of this study is to describe the acquisition rate for gender acquisition in Spanish and to show whether individual variability and language contact may affect this rate. The participants were intermediate second language Spanish (first language English) learners in the study abroad and at-home contexts over a 4-month period. The participants received grammaticality judgment tests coded for morphological class of the modified noun as well as attributive and predicative adjectives. Data were also collected on social behavior and language contact in Spanish and English in order to explain data outcome. The findings suggest that no difference exists between …
Realkeepen: Anglicisms In The German Hip-Hop Community, Matt Garley
Realkeepen: Anglicisms In The German Hip-Hop Community, Matt Garley
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