Substitution Patterns of the English Voiced Interdental Fricative by L1 Costa Rican Spanish Speakers
IsoglossL1 Spanish speakers learning English struggle to produce the English voiced interdental fricative [ð]. This is surprising as [ð] occurs naturally in Spanish as an intervocalic allophone of /d/.
Felix Fonseca Quesada
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Rhotic variation in Costa Rican spanish
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 The class of sounds classified under the umbrella term “rhotic” demonstrate considerable variability across, languages, dialects, and speech styles. This is no exception in Spanish, where rhotics have received considerable attention.
Matt Dearstyne
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The Semiotics of Religious Allusions in the Costa Rican National Variant of the Spanish Language
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017 The article is devoted to the reconstruction of religious allusions in the Costa Rican national variant of the Spanish language and analysis of its semiotics.
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Nikiforova +1 more
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Ethnic background and CYP2D6 genetic polymorphisms in Costa Ricans [PDF]
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2014 CYP2D6 differences have already been demonstrated within Latin American populations by the CEIBA.FP Consortium of the Ibero-American Network of Pharmacogenetics (RIBEF, as per the acronym in Spanish).
Carolina Céspedes-Garro +4 more
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Idioms with Clitic Pronouns without a Nominal Referent: The Case of Costa Rican Spanish, a Syntactic and Lexicographic Survey [PDF]
Filolog, 2019 In this article, we present a description of verbal phraseological units with clitics without an expressed nominal reference. After detailing the morphosyntax of the clitics in some of the main phraseological units, extracted from several dictionaries of
Sergio Cordero Monge +1 more
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Costa rican spanish speakers’ Phonetic discrimination
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2017 Costa Rican Spanish listeners associate intervocalic [z] with specific social attributes in a matched-guise test (Chappell 2016) but experience difficulty when explicitly asked to produce or even comment on the variant.
Whitney Chappell
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Consonant clusters and rhotic variation in Costa Rican Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic LinguisticsThis study examines the phonetic realization of consonant clusters involving the alveolar tap (/Cɾ/ and /ɾC/) in Costa Rican Spanish, a variety known for rhotic variation.
Felix Fonseca Quesada
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Optimal cut‐off scores for mild cognitive impairment and dementia of the Spanish version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in Costa Rican older adults [PDF]
Alzheimers DementAbstractBackgroundAlzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) burden in Costa Rica is expected to become one of the highest in the region. Early detection will help optimize resources and improve primary care interventions. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has shown good sensitivity for detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), but ...
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Russian Language Studies, 2016 The article analyzes the use of stylistically marked lexical units and phrasemes in national variants of Spanish language of Costa Rica and Spain as one of the most common means of speech intensification.
S A Nikiforova
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Results of a Study to Improve the Spanish Version of the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ).
International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2023 This paper analyses changes in some items of the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) for use in the context of Costa Rican culture. Although a Spanish version of the UEQ was created in 2012, we use a double-translation and reconciliation model for ...
Mónica Hernández Campos +2 more
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