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A Critical Review of the Morpheme Order Studies: The State of the Art
Idigoras Corporan, LoreaThe purpose of this paper is to make a critical review of the history of the so-called morpheme order studies. First of all, a brief contextualisation of the morpheme order studies is presented at the time when the ... -
A journey of self-discovery: the representation of minority girls in Cynthia Kadohata’s "The Thing About Luck", Alicia D. Williams’ "Genesis Begins Again" and Rebecca Balcárcel’s "The Other Half of Happy"
Aguayo González, Nerea (2022-03-07)The United States is a country of constant immigration which could be defined by the concepts of diversity and multiculturalism. Given the large population consisting of minority people in the country, the American society ... -
A journey towards the true face of America: the motif of the journey and the little cosmoses in "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
Arandia Arregi, Elixabet (2022-03-07)Travel literature has conventionally been concerned with recounting the adventures of courageous men and women in remote locations to encounter their auras and develop as individuals. Nevertheless, Colson Whitehead employs ... -
A psychoanalytical perspective of C.S. Lewis' The Horse and His Boy
Vela Galicia, Ainhize (2024-05-03)[EN] Children’s books may take readers into fantastical worlds of adventure, as well as teach them valuable psychological truths. The heroic figure is significant in fantasy literature, and the hero’s journey is a common ... -
A synchronic analysis of Indian English
Ona Masoko, Samantha Trinidad (2017-11-21)The present paper aims at exploring the impact that linguistic background can have on individual speech. After a brief review on how English became an official language in the republic of India, I will concentrate on the ... -
Acoustic analysis of EFL speech production corpora according to the Speech Learning Model
Lapresa Serrano, Jon (2020-05-20)It is widely accepted that L1 influences the acquisition of L2 phonology during Second Language Acquisition. Models such as the Speech Learning Model (SLM) have tried to explain this process by defining bi-directional ... -
The Acquisition of Prepositional Relative Clauses by Spanish Learners of English
Betolaza Salazar, Alazne (2018-12-03)The acquisition of prepositional relative clauses by second language (L2) learners has become an important area in the study of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Thus, different theories have been suggested so as to explain ... -
African american english: a historical and linguistic overview
Relvas Casimiro, Mariana (2023-04-17)One of the most researched English varieties around the globe is African American English, also referred to as AAE. It is an interesting variety to study not only because of the amount of research it has had since the ... -
African American Vernacular English: language, attitudes and education
Urigoitia Mendia, Olatz (2023-04-17)African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is an English variety widely spoken by African Americans in the United States. It is one of the most studied ethnic varieties of English, especially since the second half of the ... -
Age and the acquisition of foreign language phonology in an instructional context
Martín Granado, Jara (2022-03-07)The effects of age on successful language acquisition constitutes one of the most widely investigated topics within the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). In fact, the study of SLA has, since its inception, ... -
"All right, then, I'll go to hell": Religious Hypocrisy as the Subjacent Discourse in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Lasso De La Vega Huerga, Ramón (2020-05-20)The aim of this essay is to analyse the literary elements that Twain utilised as tools to present his sharp critique of religion the institution of slavery and the Southern society which benefited from it. With this purpose ... -
Amalgam clefts in spoken English
Sánchez Lander, Cristina (2018-12-03)When speakers mark the focus of a sentence they do so because they need to highlight that this constituent conveys the new information of an utterance. That is, they want to bring the interlocutor’s attention to that ... -
American English: speech analysis of the Southern dialect
Arruti Aramburu, Salbatore (2017-11-21)Language is a complex phenomenon every human ends mastering, independently of the mother tongue they have acquired in their childhood. In this globalised world, however, an increasing number of speakers are multilingual ... -
Analysis of EFL speech production corpora according to the Speech Learning Model
Morcillo Berrueta, Maddi[ES] Este TFG trata de mostrar cómo pronuncia una persona del País Vasco al hablar en Inglés (teniendo esta lengua como lengua extranjera) de acuerdo a un modelo teórico sobre el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas. También ... -
Analysis of EFL speech production data according to theoretical models : English plosives by Native Spanish speakers
Gómez Mendoza, Christel (2017-11-21)Within language acquisition, speaking in a non-native language accurately is extensively recognized to be the hardest skill confronted by learners. It seems an arduous task as it demands the correct employment of second ... -
Anna Seghers' Transit: The Puzzle of Identity
Aramendi Pérez, JosuneThe present paper aims at analysing the theme of identity in Anna Seghers’ Transit (1944). Due to the fact that it deals with the story of a German man who is in exile in order to escape from the Nazi regime, ... -
Anthropomorphic Imagery of Animals (Dragons and Horses) in the Works of Michael ende and C. S. Lewis
Teixeira Salgado, Ágata Cristina (2017-11-21)For several centuries, anthropomorphism has been a common feature used in fantastic literature; our interest in giving animals and objects human traits – clothing them, making them talk – has influenced the arts. Hence, ... -
Anxiety in foreign language learning: proficiency and gender under scrutiny
Iturricastillo Aizpuru, Jone (2020-05-20)Second language learning anxiety has been the most widely studied emotion in SLA (second language acquisition), it is said to be one of the most disputed and complex concepts, as there are various internal and external ... -
Are Semelfactives a basic aspectual category?
Ábalos Juez, Zuriñe (2018-12-03)This paper is an analysis of Semelfactives, the aspectual class introduced and defined by Smith (1991) as single-stage events occurring very quickly. Examples of Semelfactives include bodily events (e.g. blink, sneeze, ... -
Are the times a-changin'? Origin and Evolution of a-Prefix in English
Ponciano Lazaro, Marta (2018-12-03)Among the many grammatical phenomena that can be observed in different dialects of the United States, one that has garnered linguistic attention is the so-called a-prefixing, which is a morpheme that appears attached to ...