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How Does Learning L2-English in an Immersion Context Compare to Learning in a Majority-Language Context? Comparing Adolescent L1- Mandarin Speakers in Taiwan to Peers in Western Canada
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This dissertation reports three independent studies undertaken to better understand the second language (L2) English abilities that speakers of first-language (L1) Mandarin develop in language immersion classrooms. Children learning an L2 as the majority language of their community and schooling...
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How Does Maternal Education Influence Language Acquisition? Interdependencies between Environment and Input in the Bilingual Development of Immigrant and Refugee Children
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Research examining monolingual children’s acquisition demonstrates that children’s language development is intricately connected to the linguistic input they receive. However, their input varies on an individual basis; input is shaped by the broader social context in which they live...
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Fall 2020
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...
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Spring 2020
This dissertation examines the influence of various extra-linguistic aspects on language comprehension. While language comprehension is generally understood to be influenced by real-world context, and by certain individual difference variables such as the listener’s mood, it is unclear how an...