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Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C.; Pérez-Tattam, Rocío S.; Stadthagen-González, Hans; Laporte, Nadine I.; Thomas, Enlli M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
This study examined Spanish-Welsh (in Patagonia) and Welsh-English (in North Wales) bilingual children's and adults' processing of sentences in which two noun phrases acted as arguments of a verb. The goal was to determine the relative importance of distinct cues to the identification of the subject in the bilinguals' processing of their two…
Descriptors: Spanish, Welsh, English, Bilingualism
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Gabriel, Christoph; Kireva, Elena – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
A remarkable example of Spanish-Italian contact is the Spanish variety spoken in Buenos Aires (Porteño), which is said to be prosodically "Italianized" due to migration-induced contact. The change in Porteño prosody has been interpreted as a result of transfer from the first language (L1) that occurred when Italian immigrants learned…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Language Rhythm, Intonation, Second Language Learning