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Studerus, Lenard – Hispania, 1995
Although Spanish mood has been taught through a framework of categorical rules, recently attempts have been made to clarify the exact nature of certain rules and to better understand the patterns of rule variability that exist outside the classroom. This article examines the intersection of mood with notions such as habituality, general truths,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Language Variation
Skrabanek, R. L. – Civil Rights Digest, 1971
An examination of language retention among the Mexican Americans and the factors involved in their language maintenance despite pressure from a dominant American society strongly supporting the use of the English Language. (JM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Field Studies, Language Maintenance
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Di Paolo, Marianna – American Speech, 1989
Study of East and West Texans' (N=62) use of double modals as single lexical items and their syntactic and semantic characteristics found that neither Aux nor subcategorization analysis could account for both single-modal and double-modal dialects. Double modals, however, could conceivably be analyzed as two-word lexical items such as idioms or…
Descriptors: Dialects, Discourse Analysis, English, Language Patterns
Gonzalez, Gustavo – Aztlan, 1976
The grammatical deviations produced by 26 migrant children were categorized into tenses (formation and usage), pronoun usage, subject-verb agreement, possessive adjectives, negation, number concord in antecedents, irregular morpheme construction, irregular syntactic constructions, modification of nouns, preposition substitution, word omission in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns, Language Usage
El Paso Public Schools, TX. – 1963
A SEQUENCE TO THE PROGRAM BEGUN IN EARLIER GRADES (1-6) IS OFFERED. IT IS INTENDED ALSO TO GIVE THE BEGINNING SPANISH STUDENT THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN BASIC FUNCTIONAL SPANISH. MATERIALS PRESENTED ARE REPETITIONS OF VOCABULARIES AND EXPRESSIONS OF EARLIER GRADES, BUT THE TEACHING APPROACH IS GEARED TO REALISTIC SITUATIONS WHICH INVOLVE STUDENT…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Grade 7, Guides, Instructional Materials
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Thomas, Erik R. – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Texas migration patterns have split the Anglo population into rural and metropolitan dialects. Evidence from a random-sample survey of Texas and state survey of high schools show young rural Anglos preserve two stereotypical features not found in urban Anglo speech. The difference, absent among adults, suggests in-migration from other parts of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anglo Americans, English, High Schools
Patella, Victoria M.; Kuvlesky, William P. – 1975
Based on a 1967 survey of Mexican American high school sophomores conducted in the "border region" of South Texas, this 1973 follow-up study examined the extent to which: (1) historical changes had occurred in the use of Spanish and English by Mexican American boys and girls over the 6-year study period, and (2) the variations in 1973…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Followup Studies, Grade 10