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"Cunt": On the Perception and Handling of Verbal Dynamite by L1 and Lx Users of English
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
"Cunt" is currently one of the most offensive words in the English language and is usually censored in the English press and media. The present study looks firstly at differences between 1159 first (L1) and 1165 foreign (LX) users of English in their perceived understanding of the word, its perceived offensiveness and their self-reported…
Descriptors: Language Usage, English (Second Language), English, Native Language
On the Role of Experience and Age-Related Effects: Evidence from the Spanish CP
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Cuza, Alejandro; Frank, Joshua – Second Language Research, 2015
The present study examines and compares the extent to which advanced L2 learners of Spanish and Spanish heritage speakers acquire the syntactic and semantic properties that regulate the grammatical representation of double complementizer questions in Spanish, a CP-related structure not present in English. Results from an aural sentence completion…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Role
Talking to Strangers--A Sociolinguistic Experiment: Variation in Initial Dyadic Interactions between Spanish-Speakers in Early 21st Century Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Dziugis, Mary Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
What are the chances of a dyad of Spanish-speaking strangers using informal address in casual, initial interactions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today? To discover the pattern(s) of contemporary address, the Principal Investigator (PI) conducted a sociolinguistic experiment focusing on strangers' initial interactions to minimize the influence of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Participant Observation, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
What Did You Say? A Study Concerning the Vocabulary, Grammatical, and Pronunciation Choices of Houston Residents.
Williams, Patricia Ann – 1975
Fifty residents of Houston, Texas, were surveyed to determine whether or not factors concerning their background affected their word choice, grammatical usage, and pronunciation. Each informant answered a questionnaire consisting of one page of background data and two pages of questions about his daily speech. In correlating the participants'…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dialect Studies, Educational Background, Grammar
The Influence of Age in the Acquisition of English as a Third Language.
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Cenoz, Jasone – 2001
This paper analyses the influence of age on the acquisition of English as a third language by focusing on the development of general proficiency in English by school children. Participants were 60 secondary school students who had studied English for 6 years but started learning it at different ages. All participants completed a battery of tests…
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles.
Silva-Corvalan, Carmen – 1994
This study investigated the hypothesis that in language contact situations, bilinguals develop strategies aimed at lightening the cognitive load of having to remember and use two different linguistic systems, resulting in changes in the secondary language. The study examined four specific strategies (simplification of grammatical categories and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Cultural Context, Diachronic Linguistics