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Fall 2012
The study of translation of children’s literature is a recent phenomenon. The goal of this study is to explore the extent to which a translator needs to accommodate a child reader by making the text conform to the target culture. I examine two mainstream dual theories: “domestication”, which...
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Fall 2012
Del Carpio Ovando, Karla Berenice
Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, this research investigated the situation of the Tsotsil language spoken in Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico, by focusing on the implementation of a Spanish-Tsotsil bilingual elementary school. It was possible to discover that the Tsotsil language is still alive...
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2022
Over the last decade, the increased use of social media has led to an increase in hateful activities in social networks. An international issue that weakens the cohesiveness of civil societies is hate speech on internet social networks. Due to the lack of restrictions set by these sites for its...
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2021-08-16
Ashley Dugarte, Scott James Perry, Dr. Benjamin Tucker
Word-final rhotics are realized differently across the various dialects of Spanish. This research contributes to our knowledge of this variation by investigating the production of the voiced alveolar tap in Castilian Spanish in word final position by analysing infinitive verbs. The present...
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Subject realization and crosslinguistic interference in the bilingual acquisition of Spanish and English: what is the role of the input?
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This study investigated whether crosslinguistic interference occurs in the domain of subject realization in Spanish in a bilingual acquisition context. We were also interested in exploring whether the source of the interference is due to child-internal crosslanguage contact between English and...
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Spring 2016
This thesis examines the role of gender in three versions of Carme Riera’s short story “Te entrego, amor, la mar como una ofrenda” [I Leave You, My Love, the Sea as an Offering] – the Spanish-language source text, and my own translations into English and French. As romance languages such as...
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Spanish Dialectal Variation in the Foreign Language Classroom: Students' Attitudes, Instructors' Beliefs and Teaching Practices, and Treatment of Variation in Textbooks
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Communicative competence is a key concept in the field of foreign/second language (FL/L2) teaching and learning. In fact, the development of the learner’s communicative competence is one of the essential goals of FL/L2 teaching. In Bachman’s model (1990) of Communicative Language Ability,...
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Supplementary materials for Measuring and Modelling the Duration of Intervocalic Alveolar Taps in Peninsular Spanish
Supplementary materials for Measuring and Modelling the Duration of Intervocalic Alveolar Taps in Peninsular Spanish
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This contains the data and the R script from Perry et al. (2023), which is a conference paper from the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences.
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2016-01-22
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: The research project will create a trilingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English) online resource (website) mapping the relationships between contemporary Latin American poetry and the environment. This website will be addressed to both general readers of poetry and to students...
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Unity, Diversity, Anonymity: An ethno-linguistic portrait of the Spanish speaking population of Edmonton, AlbertaUnidad, diversidad, anonimidad: un retrato etnolingüístico de la población hispanohablante de Edmonton, Alberta, Canadá
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This thesis describes the role of Spanish as a common language in the construction of social networks among the diverse Spanish-speaking population of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Analysis of the data confirms the low public visibility of the community observed initially, despite the even larger...