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Korean Learners’ Acquisition and Use of Variable First-Person Subject Forms in Spanish

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Within the scope of research that lies at the intersection of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, there is a growing body of empirical work on learners’ acquisition of variable subject expression in Spanish.
Avizia Y. Long
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Subject expression in a Southeastern U.S. Mexican community

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019
Through an analysis of immigrant Spanish in Georgia, potential contact-induced language change is investigated through the lens of subject pronoun expression.
Philip Limerick
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Categories and Frequency: Cognition Verbs in Spanish Subject Expression

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Are semantic classes of verbs genuine or do they merely mask idiosyncrasies of frequent verbs? Here, we examine the interplay between semantic classes and frequent verb-form combinations, providing new evidence from variation patterns in spontaneous ...
Catherine E. Travis   +1 more
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THE STRATEGIES APPLIED BY EFL LEARNERS TO OVERCOME MORPHO-SYNTACTIC DEVIATION IN SECTION 2 OF TOEFL TEST IN A PESANTREN-BASED UNIVERSITY

open access: yesEternal (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

open access: yesRevista 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

open access: yesJ-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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First-person singular and third-person subject pronoun variation: The case of Mexican Spanish in the U.S. state of Georgia

open access: yesLenguaje, 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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Between anaphora and deixis...the resolution of the demonstrative noun-phrase ‘that N’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Anaphora resolution and word-order across adulthood: Ageing effects on online listening comprehension

open access: yesGlossa, 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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The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Choosing appropriate referring expressions requires assessing whether a referent is “available” to the addressee either perceptually or through discourse.
Anna Theakston   +4 more
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