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2022

Beshay, Nabil

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...

Spring 2024

Martinez Cano, Dalia Carolina

Despite the considerable attention given to morphology instruction in recent years, there remains an essential need to understand how and when it should be taught, as well as whether it is better suited for students with specific characteristics. Thus, the objective of this dissertation was...

2016-01-22

Cisneros, Odile

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...

Spring 2016

Alexander, Katherine Vaughn

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...

Fall 2020

Cristerna Román, Dalia

This thesis investigated the effects of implicit causality and pronominal form, i.e., null and overt pronouns, in Spanish anaphora resolution. A visual world eye-tracking experiment and a self-paced listening task were used with adult monolingual speakers of Mexican Spanish to assess two research...

Fall 2024

Perry, Scott J.

The present dissertation investigated the spontaneous production of the Spanish alveolar tap and how the variability typical of spontaneous speech impacts the process of spoken word recognition. Our corpus analyses found that intervocalic taps vary in duration and intensity due to speech rate and...

Spring 2013

Becker, Ava

Our current understanding of Spanish heritage language development (HLD) in the English-speaking world is largely restricted to non-refugee Hispanic groups in the United States (Potowski & Rothman, 2011). The present thesis addresses this gap by probing the relationship between the leftist...

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...

Spring 2015

Monerris Oliveras, Laura

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,...

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...