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Level of Intake, Depth of Processing, and Type of Linguistic Item in L2 Development
(Georgetown University, 2014)
L2 learners must employ selective attention minimally to isolate linguistic features in input to be able to take them in. Based on previous theoretical postulations and empirical research, Leow (forthcoming) postulates ...
Le strategie di gestione dell'errore nel contesto della glottodidattica delle lingue neolatine
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Second Language Acquisition is a relatively new field that has exponentially grown in its forty years. One of the areas that has rapidly developed is the study of error correction in classroom interaction, or corrective ...
Sociophonetic Variation at the Intersection of Gender, Region, and Style in Japanese Female Speech
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This dissertation is a sociophonetic study of 46 female Japanese speakers from three major metropolitan regions: Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. While previous work on Japanese Women's Language assumes a monolithic speech variety, ...
A Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and Fang: an L2 approach to Equatorial Guinean Spanish as Spoken in Bata City
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Previous studies on Equatorial Guinean Spanish (EGS) have described this dialect as being heavily influenced by the L1. For example, Granda (1985), Lipski (1985), and Quilis & Casado-Fresnillo (1995) maintain that failure ...
More Myths
(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Biology and language : a response to Everett (2005)
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Two Types of Locality
(The MIT Press, 1987)
Language, Ethnicity and Identity in a New Jersey Korean-American Community
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This dissertation investigates the variable patterning of two phonological features in the speech of 24 Korean Americans in the most densely populated Korean American community in the US, Bergen County, in the northeast ...
A Sociolinguistic Study of Postvocalic /s/ Variation in a Rio de Janeiro Favela: Race/Color, Place and Stance
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This dissertation research investigates the relationship between language and identity in the neighborhood of City of God (Cidade de Deus) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More specifically, it employs a mixed-methods approach ...
Bilingual Gestures: The "Manual" Way of Informing the Notion of 'Balanced Bilinguals'
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Defining what makes a person bilingual is notoriously difficult and dependent on various factors like fluency, age of acquisition, and situational context, among others. The notion of a `balanced bilingual' is even more ...