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 ...
Zaytseva, Victoria (Date of defense: 2016-07-01)
The present study investigates the impact of two different consecutive learning contexts, formal instruction (FI) at home and a 3-month stay abroad (SA), on second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition ...
Avello, Pilar (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
The present study investigates the impact of a 3-month study abroad (SA) period on second language (L2) phonological development in speech production by means of acoustic-phonetic measures, as well ...
Vorobyeva, Tamara (Date of defense: 2020-11-24)
Previous research has demonstrated the difficulty of the grammatical gender category for L2 learners and bilingual speakers. The main goal of this study is to investigate the gender agreement by 30 young ...
Shimoyoshi, Ayumi (Date of defense: 2016-04-18)
Psych verbs display variations in the argument realization and this has been problematic for the theories that assume a uniform relationship between semantic properties and syntactic configurations. ...