Mood selection in Spanish-English bilinguals in the U.S.

This project investigates the effects of bilingualism on mood selection in Spanish

Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Argentine Spanish

Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Argentine Spanish Humanities, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Variation is ubiquitous to language. For example, Spanish marks animate and specific direct objects (DO) with “a” (as in: Vi a un niño ‘I saw a boy’ vs. Vi un carro ‘I saw a car’), a phenomenon known as Differential Object Marking (DOM). DOM has been shown to be probabilistically constrained by a number of linguistic factors the speech of Spanish-speaking adults. The only study on first language acquisition of DOM to date, however, has concentrated only on contexts considered categorical (i.e., using “a” where it is ‘required’ and zero marking where DOM is ‘prohibited’) and its results are commonly used to suggest very early and errorless acquisition of DOM, albeit in categorical contexts. This study investigates how monolingual Spanish-speaking children arrive at adult-like use of DOM including –and specifically- in contexts where it is probabilistically conditioned. All utterances containing transitive verbs were manually extracted from the Remedi longitudinal corpus of a monolingual Argentine child, available in the online Child Language Data Exchange System database. The corpus contains 14 transcripts of naturalistic conversation between a child aged 1;10-2;11 and her father. Data were further coded for a number of predictor variables known to impact DOM use (such as presence of clitic doubling, DO animacy, DO definiteness, DO specificity). Preliminary analyses revealed that DOM use by both the child and caregiver does not follow categorical rules, revealing a number of datapoints not considered in past research. Analysis of all tokens produced by the child indicates that children may not be as adult-like in DOM use at age two as suggested in the previous literature, but that they are acquiring DOM in a piecemeal fashion

What do genres do in the EFL coursebook?

Drawing on principles from Systemic Functional Grammar and the closely related fields of Genre Studies and Multimodality, this presentation explores how social practices enter the coursebook via genres and how genres are brought to life through the deployment of various multimodal resources. Reference will be made to corpus data analysis and findings obtained. Our claim is that genre-based, multimodal-oriented analyses of EFL coursebooks can provide useful information for teachers with a genuinely communicative social perspective.https://www.faapi.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FAAPI2015.pdfFil: Liruso, Susana. Universidada de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; ArgentinaFil: Bollati, Marisel. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Argentina.Fil: Requena Pablo. University of Montana; Estados Unidos.Estudios Generales del Lenguaj

The Spanish Gough maps: first pre-postal maps of the Iberian Peninsula in its European context

In this paper, we study two singular maps, the Modern Map of Spain, attributed to Cardinal Margarit, and Spagna con le distantie de li loci; made in northern Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Like the British Gough map, both already show communication networks with expressed distances. Using formal analysis, statistical methodology, and computer proces sing, we present the cartographic characteristics of each one and relate them to their his torical context, updating the scarce information available until now. We explain their relationship as two milestones of the same cartographic process. At the same time, we study the routes represented, finding out the units of measurement used and the communication networks that both maps show us in the context of the Revolution of Communications that the Renaissance represented in Europe. The research has allowed us to attribute a new dating to them, question the traditional authorship, and advance a theory on the transport networks? functionality, demonstrating that both maps are part of a cartographic and historical process at the European level. All these updates to the vision on the first maps of communications in Western Europe established new contributions to the relationship between maps and itin eraries. It contributes to filling a void occupied in solitary, until now, by the map of Gough of Great Britain

La larga vida de la Reforma Universitaria Mujeres, estudiantes e intelectuales en el siglo reformista

Este libro reconstruye, lamento de manera muy parcial aun, una serie de fragmentos de la larga vida del reformismo y la Reforma Universitaria a lo largo del siglo XX; se trata de fragmentos desparejos –en los que aparecen recurrentemente problemas, escenarios y actores– que pretenden devolver un paisaje lleno de matices y complejidadesFil: Requena, Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Centro de Estudios Sociales; Argentina