Branzi, Francesca Martina (Date of defense: 2014-12-05)
When bilinguals plan to speak even one word, lexicalization processes of the two languages becomes concurrently activated. Surprisingly, bilingual speech production is not dramatically affected. This ...
Parra López, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Much research has been conducted on language variation and marked speech in its various forms, such as dialects, registers, and styles. There is one variety, however, which seems to have been broadly ...
Rocafiguera Montanyà, Núria de (Date of defense: 2023-01-30)
Pronominal anaphora resolution, and particularly the interpretation of third-person null and overt subject pronouns, is a complex linguistic phenomenon of the syntax-pragmatics interface. On the one ...
Barquin, Elisa Leslie (Date of defense: 2012-10-29)
While study abroad at the university level has been shown to benefit many aspects of second language proficiency, little is known about how this affects participants’ writing skills. The present study ...
Richtarcikova, Veronika (Date of defense: 2018-02-15)
Reference via adjectives typically requires an intermediate step: nominalization through overt derivational affxing. However, many languages allow even unaffixed adjectives to be used referentially. ...
Quixal Martínez, Martí (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)
Esta investigación se encuentra en la encrucijada entre el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural y el Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras y, en concreto, dentro del área denominada Aprendizaje ...
Trencia, Pascale (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
El present estudi examina com es tradueix el discurs fílmic, especialment els elements marcadors de la variació lingüística, al francès i al castellà, dues llengües pluricèntriques, és a dir, llengües ...
Romero Rivas, Carlos (Date of defense: 2016-12-19)
When people learn a second language, they typically speak with a foreign accent. Crucially, foreign-accented speech is more difficult to understand and requires more processing time than native speech. ...
Ignjatović, Mihajlo (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
This dissertation contains three studies, which explore various questions about verbal aspect and how it is affected by the process of nominalization. The first study examines the type of regular eventive ...
Giugliano, Marcello (Date of defense: 2012-06-28)
This doctoral thesis studies the recreation of spoken language in Robert Frost’s poetry and the translation of Frost’s poetry that has been carried out by Agustí Bartra and Miquel Declot into Catalan, ...