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Anrrich, Graciela (PhD - 2007)

Substitutions for English Consonants by Adult Speakers of Cuban Spanish

Mentor: Jorge M. Guitart

 

Armstrong, Grant (PhD- 2011)
 
Two Classes of Transitive Verbs: Evidence from Spanish
 
Dissertation Advisors: Héctor Campos and Elena Herburger 



Arteagoitia, Igone (PhD - 1999)

A Crosslisting Study of Second Language Processing in Spanish and Basque 

Mentor: Ronald P. Leow


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Bowden, Harriet (PhD - 2007)

The Role of Experience in Second Language Neurocognition

Mentors: Cristina Sanz; Michael Ullman

    

Bowles, Melissa A.
(PhD - 2005)

Effect of verbalization condition and type of feedback on L2 development in a CALL task    


Mentor: Ronald P. Leow
 


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Camblor-Portilla, Maria Teresa (PhD - 2006)


Written Feedback, Awareness and L2 Development: A Computerized Study

Mentor: Ronald P. Leow


Camps, Joaquim
(PhD - 1997)


Attention to Form and Meaning in Second Language Acquisition: Object Clitic Pronouns in Spanish    

Mentor: Cristina Sanz

 

Cerezo-Ceballo, Luis (PhD- 2010)

Talking to Avatars: The computer as a tutor and the incidence of learner's agency, feedback, and grammatical form in SLA

Dissertation Advisor: Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz



Choi, Jinny Kyungjin
(PhD - 1998) 


Languages in Contact: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Paraguayan Spanish from a Historical and Sociolinguistic Perspective

 

Mentor: Thomas Walsh

 

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Fuente, Maria Jose de la (PhD - 1998)

Negotiation and L2 Vocabulary: The Role of Input and Output in the Receptive and Productive Acquisition of Words    

Mentor: Ronald P. Leow



Falcon, Sandra M. (PhD - 2004)

Attitudes Toward Languages in Contact: Spanish, English, and Intellectuals in Puerto Rico    

Mentor: Thomas Walsh



Fernandez Rubiera, Francisco (In Progress)

On Clitic Placement in Asturian

Mentor:



   
G

Gordon, Leslie (PhD - 2008)    

Factors Affecting L2 Perception of Spanish Vowels by English speakers  

Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front



Greenslade-Felix, Terri A. (PhD - 2001)

The Effects of Word Order on the Intake, Text Comprehension, and Sentence Interpretation and Production of Adult Learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language 

Mentor: Cristina Sanz




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Hayer, Holly J. (PhD - 1997)

Input Enhancement for Explicit Knowledge in a Communicative Foreign Language Classroom: Effect on Semi-Spontaneous Oral Production and Explicit Knowledge    

Mentor: Ronald P. Leow



Hemmer, Robert A.
(PhD - 1993)

Criteria for Syllabus Design: Interactive Complexity and the Sequencing of Scenarios

 

Mentor: John Staczek
 



Holt, David E.
(PhD - 1997)  

Constraints and Constraint Ranking: Topics in the Development of Syllable Structure from Latin to Spanish and Portuguese    

Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front


Hsieh, Hui-Chen (PhD - 2007)


Practice, Feedback, Awareness and L2 Development through a Computerized Task

Mentor: Ronald P. Leow

 

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Lado, Beatriz (PhD - 2008)


The Role of Level of Bilingualism, Cognitive Capacity and Type of Feedback on the Acquisition of Non-primary Languages   

Mentor: Cristina Sanz



Leeman, Jennifer
(PhD - 2000)  

Towards a New Classification of Input: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Recasts, Negative Evidence, and Enhanced Salience on L2 Development   

Mentor: Alison Mackey


Lopez-Cortina, Jorge (PhD - 2008)

The Left Periphery of Spanish Interrogative Structures

Mentor: Hector Campos

 

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M

Marrano, Ann M. (PhD - 1998)


The Syntax of Modality: A Comparative Study of Epistemistic and Root Modal Verbs in Spanish and English  

Mentor: Raffaella Zanuttini



Medina, Almitra
(PhD - 2008)


Concurrent Verbalization, Task Complexity, and Working Memory: Effects on L2 Learning in a Computerized Task    

Mentor: Ronald P. Leow



Mayer, Kaylea
(PhD - 2008)  

Spanish Object-Verb Clitic Complexity and the Competition Model: The Facilitative Effects of the Acquisition of One Linguistic Structure on a Second   

Mentor: Cristina Sanz



Moreno, Nina
(PhD - 2007)


The Effects of Type of Feedback and Type of Task on L2 Development in CALL   

Mentor: Ronald P. Leow


Morgan-Short, Kara (PhD - 2007)


A Neurolinguistic Investigation of SLA: Effects of Explicit and Implicit Conditions

Mentors: Cristina Sanz; Michael Ullman

  

Morin, Regina C. (PhD - 1997)


The Nonproductivity of Softening Alternations in Spanish    

Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front


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Pérez-Casas, Marisol (PhD - 2008)

Codeswitching and Identity among Island Puerto Rican Bilinguals

Mentor: Thomas J. Walsh

 

 

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Romero, Reynaldo (PhD - 2008)

Structural Consequences of Language Shift: Judeo-Spanish in Istanbul

Mentor: Dr. Thomas Walsh



Rosa, Elena M. (PhD - 1999)

A Cognitive Approach to Task-Based Research: Explicitness, Awareness, and L2 Development

Mentor: Ron Leow


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Socarras, Gilda (PhD -  2003)  


Topics on the Acquisition of Determiner Phrases: Spanish as a First Language 

Mentor: Donna Lardiere

 

Stafford, Catherine A. (PhD - 2005)

Bilingualism, Cognitive Capacity and Age: A Computer-based Study in L3 Processing

Mentor: Cristina Sanz   

 

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Watson, Mark (PhD - 2006)    

Post-Revolutionary Cuban Spanish: Changes in the Lexicon and Language Attitudes due to Socio-Political Reforms    

Mentor: Thomas Walsh

 

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Yanguas, Iñigo (PhD -  2007)

Hispanic Heritage Language Learners: A Longitudinal Investigation of Their Academic Motivation

Mentor: Cristina Sanz

 

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Zampini, Mary L.
(PhD - 1993)


Spanish and English Voiced Stop Phonemes and Spirantization: A Study in Second Languge Acquisition

Mentor: Ronald P. Leow

 

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