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Rose, Marda C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines proposals made during planning talk--a speech act that has received little attention in previous literature--to determine the applicability of the stages of second language (L2) pragmatic development posited by Kasper and Rose (2002). Although Kasper and Rose suggest that formulas play a prominent role in L2 pragmatic…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Immersion Programs
Lew-Williams, Casey – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Six experiments explored how native and non-native Spanish speakers process article-noun sequences in real time, using eye movements as a response measure. Can listeners use gender-marked articles ("la" and "el", the feminine and masculine forms of "the") to rapidly identify familiar and novel nouns? In Experiment 1, adults who learned Spanish as…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Processing, Sentences, Cues