Observing vowel reduction, the literature presented five main Catalan varieties, divided in broad strokes between Eastern and Western. However, our proposal for Catalan and its varieties can be established in terms of Property Theory, when working from Optimality Theory. In this thesis we propose three main properties in order to classify vowel reduction in Catalan. These properties include three ...

This thesis aims to explore the variation with which one bilingual child produces word order in English questions, and ask whether the child’s dominant language, Norwegian, affects this production. Using new data from a corpus where data collection is still ongoing, we present evidence that the child transfers the word order for questions in both standard Norwegian and the Tromsø dialect into her ...

Det å flytte utløser refleksjoner om språk, sted, identitet og tilhørighet, og denne masteroppgava retter søkelyset mot disse refleksjonene. Formålet med denne sosiokulturell-lingvistiske studien er nærmere bestemt å utforske hvordan en flytteprosess påvirker oppfatninger om språklig identitet og tilhørighet hos fire flyttere fra Oslo til Tromsø. Mens tidligere sosiolingvistiske studier har studert ...

I denne oppgaven tar jeg for meg bruken av metaforiske konstruksjoner og dens formål i analysen. Jeg tar frem teamet om sexisme i Mexico, der jeg bla. analyserer tre artikler som er publisert i México og derfra ser på valg av metaforer og dens fremstilling av temaet. Kombinasjonen av den metaforiske presentasjonen i tekstene og temaet er noe jeg synes er veldig interessant.

Denne studien undersøker om det finnes problemer og utfordringer unike for situasjonen for lærere som underviser engelsk for minoritetsspråklige elever i norsk skole. Studien sammenligner også hvordan disse problemene og utfordringene oppfattes av lærere som underviser engelsk til minoritetsspråklige elever i innføringsklasser mot hvordan de oppfattes av lærere som underviser engelsk til minoritetsspråklig ...

This study investigated if any of the reported benefits related to peer assessment in writing could be transferred to oral EFL learning strategies. The study, despite a lack of control groups, sheds light on several aspects which influences peer assessment. The results indicated that the participants benefited from peer modelling and increased self-regulation due to assessing peers, rather than the ...

The present study focuses on the acquisition of English as a third language by Catalan/Spanish bilinguals. The aim is to find evidence of crosslinguistic influence from Catalan and/or Spanish in their L3 English by testing the properties of the Definiteness Effect (DE), according to which the copula cannot be followed by a definite DP in existential constructions in English and Spanish; VOS word ...

One of the main questions that arises in cases where children code switch or code mix often in their early production is whether mixing can be considered a sign of confusion, of competency, or of neither. Earlier research on language mixing in bilingual first language acquisition often pointed to the idea of a “unitary language system,” with code mixing being considered a sign of confusion. More ...

“The linguistic attitudes of Mexican speakers in Mexico City and the metropolitan area” The objective of this thesis is to find out the linguistic attitudes that exist in Mexico City and its metropolitan area. In contrast to other studies of linguistic attitudes, which tend to focus on only one aspect, here I have tried to consider three fundamental axes with the intention of obtaining a ...

Taboos are important subjects in the vast majority of societies and in all languages we can find taboo words that restrict how the speakers of a given language express themselves. In Chile there are several types of taboo words and in this study we will focus on taboo words and expressions involving sexual references. The main objective of this research is to study the linguistic perception that ...