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- Title
- BLACK ENGLISH FEATURES IN THE ENGLISH OF U.S. HISPANIC PRESCHOOL CHILDREN.
- Creator
- BELLI, GREGORY CHARLES, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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This study attempts to discover and quantify the extent to which selected Black English features are present in the English of a group of United States Hispanic Children in south Florida. The five features are /r,l/ simplification, consonant cluster simplification, past tense verb marker reduction, copula deletion, and inverted embedded questions. The best indicators of Black English influence in the young Hispanic children's English are found to be regular past tense verb endings, third...
Show moreThis study attempts to discover and quantify the extent to which selected Black English features are present in the English of a group of United States Hispanic Children in south Florida. The five features are /r,l/ simplification, consonant cluster simplification, past tense verb marker reduction, copula deletion, and inverted embedded questions. The best indicators of Black English influence in the young Hispanic children's English are found to be regular past tense verb endings, third person singular present tense forms of be, words containing a preconsonantal l, present tense plural forms of be, and an words containing voiced consonant clusters, respectively. A hierarchy of factors contributing to the overall Black English influence is constructed. Relevant literature is reviewed.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1979
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13966
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- An analysis of negative and interrogative structures in the English of junior high school ESL students in a bilingual community.
- Creator
- Briggs, Susan Ellen, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis investigates the acqusition of certain negative and interrogative structures by adolescent Spanish-speaking ESL students in a bilingual community. These ESL learners demonstrated two unexpected negating strategies using not plus the verb and never plus the verb. They likewise used does/did as an overgeneralized question marker. Age of first exposure to English did not appear to be a significant factor in the acquisition of the English auxiliary, and the students' acquisition of...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the acqusition of certain negative and interrogative structures by adolescent Spanish-speaking ESL students in a bilingual community. These ESL learners demonstrated two unexpected negating strategies using not plus the verb and never plus the verb. They likewise used does/did as an overgeneralized question marker. Age of first exposure to English did not appear to be a significant factor in the acquisition of the English auxiliary, and the students' acquisition of negative and interrogative structures appeared to be delayed in this bilingual environment, despite ESL instruction.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1988
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14438
- Subject Headings
- Education, Bilingual and Multicultural, Language, Linguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A DESCRIPTIVE PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SPANISH SPOKEN IN THE PROVINCE OF HAVANA, CUBA.
- Creator
- BERTOT, LILLIAN, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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The present study offers a series of observations based on extensive research into the phonology of the Spanish spoken in the province of Havana, Cuba. The phonemes for the province are determined, and special attention is given to allophonic variants peculiar to and/or characteristic of Havana. The allophonic variants are described in detail on articulatory and distributional criteria. There is a great deal of emphasis placed on the description of consonants. The vowels are also discussed....
Show moreThe present study offers a series of observations based on extensive research into the phonology of the Spanish spoken in the province of Havana, Cuba. The phonemes for the province are determined, and special attention is given to allophonic variants peculiar to and/or characteristic of Havana. The allophonic variants are described in detail on articulatory and distributional criteria. There is a great deal of emphasis placed on the description of consonants. The vowels are also discussed. There is no reference to suprasegmental phonological data. After the phonological studied is completed, the differences in the speech of socioeconomic groups are explained.
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- 1969
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13440
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The significance of old French manuscript evidence for seeking all sources of "The Romaunt of the Rose".
- Creator
- Balis, Nathaniel Cogswell, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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The search for all sources of The Romaunt of the Rose, the fourteenth-century English version of Le roman de la Rose, focuses on Geoffrey Chaucer. The authorship controversy is so divisive that prominent medievalists like Huot, Hult, Robertson, and Badel write long volumes on the Roman's influence without mentioning the Romaunt. Comparing Geissman's list of rime-borrowings with both poems' concordances is the only way to end the debate, because Chaucer is the likeliest author and one must...
Show moreThe search for all sources of The Romaunt of the Rose, the fourteenth-century English version of Le roman de la Rose, focuses on Geoffrey Chaucer. The authorship controversy is so divisive that prominent medievalists like Huot, Hult, Robertson, and Badel write long volumes on the Roman's influence without mentioning the Romaunt. Comparing Geissman's list of rime-borrowings with both poems' concordances is the only way to end the debate, because Chaucer is the likeliest author and one must start with the most compatible French and English texts. At present, the best way to test Geoffrey Chaucer's authorship of the Middle English Romaunt is through close examination of the French rime-borrowings most orthoepically comparable in both languages that the Middle English writer occasionally chose to translate rather than borrow. This selective borrowing suggests the translator's attempt to bring each term slowly into the English mainstream, by using it at first only in its literal sense.
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- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15032
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics, Literature, Comparative, Literature, Medieval
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE PREPARATION OF BEGINNING ENGLISH READING MATERIALS FOR MIKASUKI SPEAKERS.
- Creator
- KRUSE, KATRINA MARGUERITE., Florida Atlantic University, Trammell, Robert L., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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A sequence for materials in English beginning reading lessons is proposed for native speakers of Mikasuki. This sequence utilizes to the greatest possible extent the native linguistic background of Mikasuki-speaking students while including most of the skills taught to native English speakers in traditional materials. The presentation is based on two criteria: 1) an analysis of the phonological similarities and differences between Mikasuki and English, and 2) a linguistic approach to...
Show moreA sequence for materials in English beginning reading lessons is proposed for native speakers of Mikasuki. This sequence utilizes to the greatest possible extent the native linguistic background of Mikasuki-speaking students while including most of the skills taught to native English speakers in traditional materials. The presentation is based on two criteria: 1) an analysis of the phonological similarities and differences between Mikasuki and English, and 2) a linguistic approach to beginning reading instruction, which emphasizes the gradual and systematic introduction of regular sound-spelling patterns. Using these criteria it is possible to order the presentation of English phonemes and graphemes in terms of their predicted difficulty for the Mikasuki-speaking student. These are systematically presented to improve the Mikasuki-speaker's chances of establishing a, positive achievement base at each stage of the learning process.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13699
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)