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Direct linkSabourin, Laura; Stowe, Laurie A. – Second Language Research, 2008
In this article we investigate the effects of first language (L1) on second language (L2) neural processing for two grammatical constructions (verbal domain dependency and grammatical gender), focusing on the event-related potential P600 effect, which has been found in both L1 and L2 processing. Native Dutch speakers showed a P600 effect for both…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Languages, Language Processing, Romance Languages
Helena, Maria; e Sa, Araujo; Melo, Sivia – Language Awareness, 2007
This paper is situated in interaction on the Internet and presents an analysis of chat conversations in Romance languages--French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish--between students from several universities. The Internet is currently a fertile setting for intercultural and plurilingual encounters, and interaction, virtual or real, is seen as a…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Internet, Data Analysis, Metalinguistics
Spinu, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Within the larger context of the Romance languages, Romanian stands alone in exhibiting a surface contrast between plain and palatalized consonants (that is, consonants with a secondary palatal articulation). While the properties of secondary palatalization are well known for language families in which the set of palatalized consonants is…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Romance Languages, Articulation (Speech), Language Research
Solberg, Winton U. – History of Education Quarterly, 2009
In 1911 Jean Baptiste Beck, a scholar of international reputation, was appointed to a three-year term on the faculty of the University of Illinois. His personal eccentricities conditioned his adjustment to the community. In 1912 he married the daughter of a University professor, and as a result Edmund J. James, president of the University of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Archives, Foreign Countries, Reputation
Stovicek, Thomas William – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study outlines the development of Portuguese and Spanish verbal morphology from Latin in the context of the Hispanic branch of Romance, with a focus on the conjugational classes, whose number has been reduced to only three in this branch of Western Romance. It is innovative in approaching the topic as a study of sequential productive grammars…
Descriptors: Verbs, Linguistic Borrowing, Romance Languages, Morphology (Languages)
Chapman, Hugh H., Jr.; Kellander, Donald H. – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1973
Results of a survey presented at the triennial convention of the Phi Sigma Iota Romance Language Honor Society, October 5-8, 1972, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (DS)
Descriptors: Degree Requirements, Departments, Educational Trends, Language Enrollment
Nolan, John Shaun – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
This paper examines the transmission patterns of Eastern Brittany's Romance language variety, Gallo, based on quantitative data showing learning patterns of school pupils of the language and their parents in 2003 and 2004. Results confirm the sharp decline in Gallo transmission between generations. Nevertheless, Gallo transmission has not…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
Sabourin, Laura; Stowe, Laurie A.; de Haan, Ger J. – Second Language Research, 2006
In this article second language (L2) knowledge of Dutch grammatical gender is investigated. Adult speakers of German, English and a Romance language (French, Italian or Spanish) were investigated to explore the role of transfer in learning the Dutch grammatical gender system. In the first language (L1) systems, German is the most similar to Dutch…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Semantics, Familiarity, Romance Languages
Peer reviewedLlorens, Ana M. R. – Modern Language Journal, 1976
This is a general, descriptive survey of some of the most important and most specialized bibliographic indexes to periodical literature in the Romance languages. The annotated list includes seven categories: General, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Special Subjects and Books and Sets. (CHK)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Foreign Language Periodicals, French
Yelmo, 1978
Discusses the historical role of the Romance languages and the practical value of Spanish in today's world. (NCR)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Attitudes, Language Role, Latin American Culture
Download full textIzzo, Herbert J. – 1975
Drawing on the analogy between the linguistic Romanization of Europe and the Hispanization of America, this paper attempts to investigate the validity of the so-called substream theory to account for the development and diversification of the Romance languages. Phonetic peculiarities of Spanish in America are analyzed, and it is concluded that…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Latin
Peer reviewedSharpley-Whiting, T. Denean – ADFL Bulletin, 1999
Discusses francophone studies as a race-diversifying strategy in higher education, examining the role of Romance language and literature departments. Francophonia requires an intercultural examination of French culture in the context of the cross-cultural (which could occur through an interdisciplinary alliance of the French department and African…
Descriptors: African Studies, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student), French
Price, Jo-Ann – New York Times, 1978
Describes the techniques used by Dr. John A. Rassias, professor of romance languages and literature at Dartmouth College, in teaching intensive foreign language courses. (RK)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Higher Education, Intensive Language Courses, Language Instruction
Ploquin, Francoise – Francais dans le Monde, 1991
A discussion of the need to promote mutual comprehension among speakers of Romance languages describes one university program in France and looks at the possibility of extending multilanguage instruction to secondary education. The potential, and problems, of trying to teach students listening comprehension in several related languages are…
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Planning
Gerzymisch-Arbogast, Heidrun – IRAL, 1993
A theoretical discussion is offered on whether the subjunctive in the Romance languages is by nature thematic, as suggested in previous studies. English and Spanish samples are used to test the hypothesis; one conclusion is that the subjunctive seems to offer speaker-related information and may express the intensity of the speaker's involvement.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory
