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Dominance, Proficiency, and Spanish Heritage Speakers' Production of English and Spanish Vowels
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Shea, Christine – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
This study examines how dominance and proficiency relate to Spanish heritage speaker vowel productions. Participants' normalized vowel measurements were compared to nonheritage native speakers of Spanish and English using the Pillai score, an output of Multivariate Analysis of Variances (MANOVAs) that allows comparisons across distributions of two…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Native Language, Language Proficiency, Spanish
Grammatical Features of Egyptian and Palestinian Arabic Heritage Speakers' Oral Production
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Albirini, Abdulkafi; Benmamoun, Elabbas; Saadah, Eman – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study presents an investigation of oral narratives collected from heritage Egyptian and Palestinian Arabic speakers living in the United States. The focus is on a number of syntactic and morphological features in their production, such as word order, use of null subjects, selection of prepositions, agreement, and possession. The degree of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Grammar
Learners' Hypotheses for the Acquisition of Lexis.
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Giacobbe, Jorge; Cammarota, Marie-Ange – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The relationship between the source language (Spanish) and the target language (French) in the construction of lexis during target language acquisition was examined in two case studies, leading to the hypothesis that there are both systematic and nonsystematic approaches to the construction of lexis used by Hispanophones learning French.…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes
Asymmetric Communication in Bilingual Exchanges.
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de Heredia, Christine – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Analyzes the characteristics of exolingual communication, illustrated by case studies of dialogues between French and Latin American Spanish speakers. Hypotheses about exolingual communication are presented, specifically on the "guidance" offered by native speakers and the role of metalinguistic activities. (Author/CB).
Descriptors: Adults, Code Switching (Language), Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Optimal L2 Syllables: Interactions of Transfer and Developmental Effects.
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Hancin-Bhatt, Barbara; Bhatt, Rakesh M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Presents evidence of a study of speakers of English as a Second Language that cross-language transfer effects interact with developmental effects in the construction of second language (L2) syllable structures. Argues that the optimality theory provides a more explicit account than the minimal sonority distance parameter setting model regarding…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Code Switching (Language), Consonants, English (Second Language)
Attrition in the Productive Lexicon of Two Portuguese Third Language Speakers.
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Cohen, Andrew D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
A study of two English-Hebrew bilingual children's productive vocabulary loss in oral Portuguese after discontinued contact with the language investigated lexical loss in Portuguese storytelling behavior. Analysis focused on the nature of attrited productive lexicon, compensatory lexical production strategies, and lexical retrieval process.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Case Studies, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)