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A Longitudinal Analysis of Spanish Morphosyntactic Performance Based on Spanish-English Bilingual Exposure and Usage ...
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Social Factors in the Production, Perception and Processing of Contact Varieties: Evidence from Bilingual Corpora, Nativeness Evaluations, and Real-time Processing (EEG) of Spanish-accented English
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Originating in the 1960’s with the work of William Labov, the field of sociolinguistics has given way to a rich literature that continues to uncover the many ways in which social factors influence how we produce, perceive, and process speech. Sociolinguistic research has burgeoned alongside increasing globalization and migration, which has, in the case of the U.S. at least, resulted in increased levels of bilingualism and more frequent interactions with non-native English speakers. My dissertation, which consists of three distinct chapters, combines insights from the sociolinguistic literature with methodologies from cognitive science in order to better understand the ways in which perceptions of identity and social attitudes towards nonstandard language varieties influence our everyday spoken interactions. More specifically, I investigate how several social factors (i.e. language background, dialect stigmatization, and speaker accent) may influence speech production, perception, and processing. The data presented come from over sixty fieldwork interviews, a series of corpus analyses, two online surveys, and one neurolinguistic experiment. In the first paper, I identify how social factors have appeared to influence auxiliary verb choice among some Ecuadorian Spanish speakers. While the markedly frequent use of auxiliary ir, Sp. ‘to go’ in Ecuadorian Spanish has historically been traced to contact effects from Quichua, analysis of a present-day Ecuadorian Spanish corpus reveals that Quichua-Spanish bilinguals do not use the construction significantly more than Spanish monolinguals. Given auxiliary ir may be marked as a slightly nonstandard alternative for the auxiliary estar and that Quichua-Spanish bilinguals have long been denied linguistic prestige in the sociolinguistic stratification of Ecuadorian Spanish, I propose the possibility that language background and dialect stigmatization may explain the current distribution of auxiliary ir production among Ecuadorian Spanish speakers. In the second chapter, I investigate the relationship between speaker accents and American perceptions of nativeness. Specifically, I examined how young adult Midwesterners today perceive two main kinds of Spanish-influenced English varieties: L1 Latino English (as spoken in Chicago, U.S.) and L2 Spanish-accented English (as spoken in Santiago, Chile). Since Latinos have recently become the dominant ethnic minoritized group in the U.S., the varieties of English that they speak are under increasing scrutiny, and cases of linguistic discrimination are on the rise. Results from an accent evaluation survey reveal that respondents distinguished the L1 Latino English from the L2 Spanish-influenced English speaker, but still rated him as slightly more foreign-sounding than L1 speakers with more established U.S. dialects (e.g. New York). In other words, native U.S. speakers perceived as “sounding Hispanic” were perceived as sounding “almost American,” which suggests that what Midwesterners count as sounding American may be in the process of expanding to include U.S.-born Latinos. In the third chapter, I focus on the effect that speaker accent has on online word processing in the brain. Specifically, does Spanish-accented English speech increase activation of the Spanish lexicon in the mind of Spanish-English bilingual listeners? Though more data is needed for a clear answer, preliminary data from an EEG experiment suggests that speaker accent may possibly modulate bilingual lexical activation. This is investigated via analysis of N400 responses from bilingual listeners when false cognates from Spanish were produced by a Spanish-accented English speaker relative to a Chinese-accented English speaker. ; PHD ; Linguistics ; University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/168117/1/emsabo_1.pdf
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accents; English; Humanities; language attitudes; Linguistics; social cognition; sociolinguistics; Spanish
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URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/168117
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A contrastive study of the EFL vowel system in native Spanish, French, German and Russian learners
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In: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) (2021)
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"Nosotros las mujeres": otro sincretismo más del pronombre "nosotros" en español actual ; "Nosotros las mujeres": another syncretism of the pronoun "nosotros" in Modern Spanish
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Fórmulas de tratamiento en Ocaña, Colombia
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In: Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (2021)
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Factores lingüísticos y no-lingüísticos en el contacto entre el papiamento y el español en Aruba ...
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Lexical Variation, Health Literacy, and Gender Segregation: An Elicitation Survey in a Spanish-Speaking Immigrant Community
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In: South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL) (2020)
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MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventories (CDI): A Research Synthesis Evaluating Children at 2-36 months
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In: MA in Linguistics Final Projects (2020)
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El diccionario ideológico de Julio Casares como recurso de la lengua española
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In: Lingue e Linguaggi; Volume 39 (2020); 235-246 (2020)
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The Language Vitality of Nahuatl in Santiago Tlaxco, Mexico
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In: Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (2020)
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Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Language Abilities and Social Communication
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In: Graduate Masters Theses (2020)
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Are L2 Speakers Allowed to Use Colloquialisms? L1 Attitudes Toward Spanish L2 Speakers' Use of Informal Lexical Items
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Iberian linguistic elements among the black population in New Netherland (1614–1664)
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In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, vol 34, iss 1 (2019)
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Settledness and Mood Alternation: A Semantic-Pragmatic Analysis of Spanish Future-Framed Adverbials
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In: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555349686252856 (2019)
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PAIR INTERACTION IN SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS THAT ENROLL HERITAGE AND L2 LEARNERS ...
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