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LanguagesLearning a language means both mastering the grammatical structures and using contextually appropriate language, or developing sociolinguistic competence, which has been examined by measuring the native-like patterns of sociolinguistic variables.
Xinye Zhang
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The Development of Basque Subject Pronoun Expression in Bilingual School-Age Children
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic LinguisticsAcquiring full mastery of the pragmatic constraints regulating null/overt pronominal subjects in null subject languages like Basque is a prolonged and cognitively taxing process because pronominal distribution is pragmatically conditioned in discourse ...
Eider Etxebarria, Silvina Montrul
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LanguagesWe examine variable first-person singular subject pronoun expression in Spanish learner data to investigate the effects of study abroad in Mexico and Spain on the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation.
Esther Brown, Tracy Quan, Javier Rivas
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Eternal (English, Teaching, Learning & Research Journal), 2021 The study aims at revealing the morphological and syntactical deviations patterned by EFL students, and their strategies to respond structure and written expression of TOEFL-Like Test. 70 students participated in this study.
Abdur Rofik
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Experimental evidence for 2SG direct object pronoun preferences in Brazilian Portuguese
Revista Linguística, 2018 We examine the competition in Brazilian Portuguese 2SG direct object pronoun expression between clitic te and tonic você (e.g. Eu te vi ~ Eu vi você). We offer data from an online forced-choice survey, analyzed using mixed-effects logistic regression, to
Scott A. Schwenter +4 more
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‘Me inda nampak’ – Pronoun Use in Malay-English Codemixed Social Media Texts
J-Lalite, 2020 This paper investigates the use of English the first-person singular object pronoun ‘me’ as a subject in conversation on WhatsApp and Telegram between university students in their twenties. It was found that the feature occurs more when interlocutors are
'Aqilah Aziz
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Lenguaje, 2021 The current study analyzes variable subject pronoun expression (SPE) for first-person singular (1sg) and third-person subjects in a variety of Mexican Spanish spoken by first-generation Mexican immigrants in the state of Georgia, Southeastern U.S ...
Philip P. Limerick
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Glossa, 2020 In this visual-world paradigm we investigated the processing and interpretation of two overt subject anaphoric expressions in Greek, a null-subject language with a relatively free word-order, in relation to specific linguistic properties and whether ...
Ana I. Pérez Muñoz +2 more
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Between anaphora and deixis...the resolution of the demonstrative noun-phrase ‘that N’ [PDF]
, 2011 Three experiments examined the hypothesis that the demonstrative noun phrase (NP) that N, as an anadeictic expression, preferentially refers to the less salient referent in a discourse representation when used anaphorically, whereas the anaphoric pronoun
Cowles, H Wind +2 more
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Subject pronoun expression and language mode in bilingual Spanish [PDF]
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2018 AbstractIn research on Spanish subject pronoun expression, Spanish-English bilinguals have been shown to present higher rates of expressed subjects in code-switching than in monolingual Spanish mode, an outcome attributed to perseveration from English or to convergence with English.
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