Entries from Group 4 Language Blog tagged with 'Pete Obourn-From the Field Entry'

Immersion or Slow Transition?

As we have been discussing in class, people who do not speak the standard language of their society have a very difficult time being successful in an academic setting. We threw around several possible reasons for this problem in class,...

Phonological Neighborhoods

In light of our recent class discussions concerning verbal blunders and speech disfluencies I was compelled to find an article pertaining to these aspects of speech. The article I found discussed the incidence of speech errors in Spanish. The authors...