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- 16Second language acquisition
- 13Bilingualism
- 13Language acquisition
- 8Psycholinguistics
- 3Children--Language
- 2Hammer, Petra
- 1Alibrahim, Bashair
- 1Andressen, Andrew Brent.
- 1Anjomshoae, Farzaneh
- 1Archer, Cameron Geoffrey.
- 1Armenian, Atken.
- 26Department of Educational Psychology
- 22Department of Secondary Education
- 16Department of Elementary Education
- 12Department of Linguistics
- 4Department of Educational Administration
- 3Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
- 2Järvikivi, Juhani (Linguistics)
- 1Aalto, Daniel (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- 1Blair, Heather (Department of Elementary Education)
- 1Daskalaki, Evangelia (Linguistics)
- 1Dr. Louise Ladouceur (Études théâtrales, Campus Saint-Jean) - co-supervisor
- 1Dr. Sathya Rao (Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies) - supervisor
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Pattern Learning and Accent Familiarity in Monolingual and Bilingual English Speakers: Generalizing Learning Across Accented Speech
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It is increasingly common to encounter speakers with an accented variety of English, especially as society becomes more diverse and multilingual. To begin shedding light on how to improve communication outcomes when interacting with a speaker who has an accent, this research investigates...
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Testing Effects of Bilingualism on Inhibition, Shifting and Working Memory Ability in Adults
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Bilingualism is a prevalent experience and the notion of bilingual advantage in cognitive abilities has been debated hotly over the past decades. Researchers have sought to investigate the long-term impacts of knowing a second language on executive function (EF) enrichment. Some studies have...
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Un aller-retour asymétrique : bilinguisme et pratique autotraductive dans le contexte arabe
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Throughout the two-way journey of nine self-translating authors from the literary periphery to the literary center and vice versa, this project examines the asymmetrical transfer of their work between the central languages of French and English on one part, and Arabic as a peripheral language on...
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Reframing Differences: The Dialect Variations in the Phonological Development of Canadian Bilingual Children who Speak French
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Introduction: Canada’s French-English bilingual population is increasing, including the number of individuals outside of Québec who speak French. These individuals make up Official Language Minority Communities (OLMCs) which refer to Canadians who speak French and live outside of Québec, and...
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Spring 2018
RESEARCH PROBLEM: Research on bilingualism and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is limited. Existing studies have focused on childrenâs second language (L2) development and little attention has been given to heritage language (HL) development. This thesis responds to the question, âdoes an...
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Comprehension of Evidentiality in Spoken Turkish: Comparing Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers
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This thesis investigated the comprehension of evidentiality in Turkish heritage speakers and first generation immigrants, in comparison to monolingual speakers using a self-paced listening task. The question of how individual differences, such as the speakers’ proficiency and language environment...
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A STUDY ON THE AUDIENCE RECEPTION OF THEATRE SURTITLES: Surtitling in a Francophone Minority Context in Canada and the Language Learning Potentials of Theatre Surtitles
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This mixed-methods study focuses on the audience reception of theatre surtitles in a Francophone minority theatre context in Western Canada at L’UniThéâtre in Edmonton, Alberta. The main objective of this multifaceted research was to measure the perceptions of and reactions to English surtitles...
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Fall 2014
This dissertation sets out to explain the development during morphophonological acquisition and its possible learning outcomes by constructing a Probabilistic Selection of Input (PSI) rich lexicon learning model, in part based on psycholinguistic evidence that rich language details are lexically...
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Graded effects of first and second language orthography on pronunciation during second language acquisition
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This study aims to assess how frequency-based and probabilistic measure describing the orthography-phonology relationship influence the accuracy of second language (L2) pronunciation in a phonological decoding task for native English learners of German, and a control group with no formal...
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La perception des finissants des programmes d'immersion de l'Alberta comme apprenant de langue seconde
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This case study explores French Immersion graduates’ perceptions of how they learned their second language. During this research I interviewed five French Immersion students from Western Canada. The goal of these interviews was to understand and analyze the language learning experiences of these...