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Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish-Palenquero Bilinguals: Contact and Second Language Acquisition
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Johan De La Rosa Yacomelo – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation explores subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Palenquero Spanish (PL Spanish) and Palenquero Creole (PL Creole), two languages that have coexisted for centuries in San Basilio de Palenque (Colombia), share most of their lexicon, but differ in their grammar. Crucially, this study investigates how the contact between them and the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Creoles, Bilingualism, Form Classes (Languages)
Variation in /?/ Outcomes in the Speech of U.S
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Figueroa, Nicholas James – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation investigated the speech productions of the implosive -r consonant by U.S.-born Puerto Rican and Dominican Heritage Language Spanish speakers in New York. The following main research questions were addressed: 1) Do heritage language Caribbean Spanish speakers evidence the same variation with the /?/ consonant in the implosive…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Speech Communication, Phonemes, Puerto Ricans
Heritage Language Learners: On the Brink of Language and Cultural Loss
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Trinidad-Sheahan, Cynthia – ProQuest LLC, 2019
There is difficulty in defining the profile of a Heritage Language Learner (HLL) due to the experiences with language that individuals face in their social and academic world. There are questions centered on whether a categorical distinction between the native speaker and the native user can be upheld; this is inherently problematic when there is…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Linguistic Experience of Italians in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1914: Language Shift as Seen through Social Spaces
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Italiano-McGreevy, Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2013
From 1890-1914, Argentina received a large influx of Italian immigrants who wanted to "hacer la América," or live the American dream of economic prosperity. With Italian immigrants representing nearly half of all immigrants entering Argentina, the government strived to create a new sense of Argentine pride and nationalism. The objective…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Italian, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Errors in Inflectional Morphemes as an Index of Linguistic Competence of Korean Heritage Language Learners and American Learners of Korean
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Kim, So-Young – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the linguistic competence in Korean of Korean heritage language learners (HLLs), compared to English-speaking non-heritage language learners (NHLLs) of Korean. It is unclear and controversial as to whether heritage languages learners are exposed to early but are interrupted manifest as L1 competence or share more…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Linguistic Competence, Korean, Second Language Learning
Identity and Language Ideology in the Intermediate Spanish Heritage Language Classroom
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Lowther Pereira, Kelly Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the negotiation of language ideologies and identity construction amongst university intermediate level Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) learners in the U.S. Southwest. Combining sociolinguistic and ethnographic methods with discourse analysis, this study seeks to provide deeper insight into the linguistic practices and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Ideology, Participant Observation, Focus Groups