{"title":"Pronunciation proficiency and musical aptitude in Spanish as a foreign language: results of an experimental research project","authors":"Lieve Vangehuchten, V. Verhoeven, P. Thys","doi":"10.4995/RLYLA.2015.3372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4995/RLYLA.2015.3372","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the correlation between musical aptitude and pronunciation proficiency in an experiment with 29 university students of Spanish as a foreign language. The 29 participants took a test in Spanish pronunciation and prosody as well as in musicality. The pronunciation and prosody test consisted of two parts. The first part was a receptive phonemic discrimination test and the second part was a productive test in which they had to repeat words and sentences chosen for their prosodic characteristics. The musical aptitude test also consisted of a receptive part on musicality in general, as well as a productive part, which included the reproduction of tones, tone intervals, rhythms and the singing of a melody. The statistical analysis with Pearson’s correlation-coefficients revealed a positive correlation (although not for all aspects) between the musical and foreign language pronunciation proficiency aptitudes. The results are commented on in the discussion. Relevant teaching implications are included in the conclusion.","PeriodicalId":42090,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas","volume":"10 1","pages":"90-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2015-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70616425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neología aplicada y lexicografía: para la (necesaria) actualización de las entradas de los elementos de formación de palabras en diccionarios generales","authors":"María Tadea Díaz Hormigo","doi":"10.4995/RLYLA.2015.3587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4995/RLYLA.2015.3587","url":null,"abstract":"La investigacion de los neologismos puede contribuir a la actualizacion de las entradas de los elementos de formacion de palabras de los diccionarios generales, aunque previamente se ha de proceder a clarificar los conceptos de “neologia” y “neologismo”, para que puedan aplicarse a las innovaciones del nivel morfologico, y a delimitar terminologica y conceptualmente las unidades de este nivel que intervienen en la formacion de palabras. En este articulo, se propone una metodologia para la investigacion; se presentan los recursos linguisticos disponibles para la obtencion de diferentes corpus de creaciones neologicas, y se reivindica la utilidad del analisis contrastivo para elaborar las propuestas de renovacion de los compendios lexicograficos, que se atenderan segun sean las caracteristicas generales y las finalidades del diccionario. Los resultados de la investigacion pueden tambien ser utiles para la actualizacion de las informaciones sobre elementos de formacion de palabras de gramaticas y estudios monograficos especificos.","PeriodicalId":42090,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas","volume":"10 1","pages":"12-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2015-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70616328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Las tareas de comunicación oral en la evaluación del inglés: el uso de conectores","authors":"Marcos Peñate Cabrera","doi":"10.4995/RLYLA.2015.2800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4995/RLYLA.2015.2800","url":null,"abstract":"Although assessment experts have been researching the relationship between the different types of tasks and their level of difficulty, this process of analysis should be pursued further in order to acquire a more accurate vision of the variables involved. In this article we study the three types of tasks most frequently used in the different models of oral exams (one-to-one interview based on a photo, one-to-one interview based on a comic strip and a dialogue in pairs). In order to carry out this study we assessed 244 pupils from the second year of Bachillerato belonging to nine different schools and having an A2 level of English. When contrasting the 3 types of tasks, our aim was to analyse the amount and complexity of the oral production, namely the use of linkers, by means of statistical tests of homogeneity and specificity.","PeriodicalId":42090,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas","volume":"29 1","pages":"55-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2015-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70615963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subtitling Tarantino’s offensive and taboo dialogue exchanges into european spanish: the case of Pulp Fiction","authors":"José Javier Ávila-Cabrera","doi":"10.4995/RLYLA.2015.3419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4995/RLYLA.2015.3419","url":null,"abstract":"La manera en la que el lenguaje ofensivo y tabu se subtitula representa una practica delicada y polemica pues este lenguaje funciona como vehiculo lexico que aporta informacion sobre la personalidad, clase social y entorno de los personajes, pudiendo provocar una reaccion fuerte en la audiencia (Diaz Cintas, 2001). Se podria decir que la omision de terminos ofensivos y tabu implica la perdida de la funcion comunicativa de los mismos. Partiendo de un enfoque basado en los Estudios Descriptivos de Traduccion, los objetivos de este articulo se centran en arrojar luz sobre la forma en la que el filme Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) se subtitulo a espanol europeo, explorando asi pues: (1) las estrategias traductologicas empleadas por el subtitulador; (2) la manera en la que los dialogos ofensivos/tabu fueron transferidos a la pantalla; (3) la posible influencia tecnica de aquellos casos en los que la carga ofensiva y tabu queda neutralizada u omitida.","PeriodicalId":42090,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas","volume":"202 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2015-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70616588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The regularization of Old English weak verbs","authors":"Marta Tío Sáenz","doi":"10.4995/RLYLA.2015.3583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4995/RLYLA.2015.3583","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with the regularization of non-standard spellings of the verbal forms extracted from a corpus. It addresses the question of what the limits of regularization are when lemmatizing Old English weak verbs. The purpose of such regularization, also known as normalization, is to carry out lexicological analysis or lexicographical work. The analysis concentrates on weak verbs from the second class and draws on the lexical database of Old English Nerthus, which has incorporated the texts of the Dictionary of Old English Corpus. As regards the question of the limits of normalization, the solution adopted are, in the first place, that when it is necessary to regularize, normalization is restricted to correspondences based on dialectal and diachronic variation and, secondly, that normalization has to be unidirectional.","PeriodicalId":42090,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas","volume":"10 1","pages":"78-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2015-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70616198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Los límites de la política y planificación lingüísticas","authors":"Gérard Fernández Smith","doi":"10.4995/RLYLA.2015.3596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4995/RLYLA.2015.3596","url":null,"abstract":"En el presente trabajo se pretende llevar a cabo una aproximacion a los conceptos teoricos de la politica y planificacion linguisticas en relacion con ejemplos concretos de medidas en diversos ambitos que no pueden adscribirse facilmente a los procesos y mecanismos previstos en los modelos existentes y comunmente aceptados en este campo de investigacion, lo que conlleva, en nuestra opinion, la necesidad de reformular algunos de esos conceptos y de dotar asi de mas flexibilidad y posibilidades de aplicacion a dichos modelos. Para ello, presentamos y discutimos ejemplos relativos, entre otros, a medidas para favorecer el uso no discriminatorio del lenguaje, en general, y del uso no sexista, en particular, con el fin de argumentar sobre que posibilidades ofrecen los esquemas teoricos para explicarlos y para contribuir a la formulacion, en su caso, de hipotesis alternativas sobre los mismos o de terminos que describan con mas exactitud la situacion real.","PeriodicalId":42090,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas","volume":"10 1","pages":"34-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2015-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70616756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resolución de anáforas que requieren conocimiento cultural con la herramienta Fungramkb","authors":"María de los Llanos Carrión Varela","doi":"10.4995/RLYLA.2014.2003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4995/RLYLA.2014.2003","url":null,"abstract":"While integrating linguistic knowledge of any kind is becoming an almost implicit practice in natural language understanding systems, the inclusion of cultural or world knowledge in these tools might have been neglected sometimes. However, a NLP system or knowledge base enriched with cultural information is a more robust, better cohesioned instrument for natural language understanding processes. The integration of this type of knowledge in NLP systems may be proven to contribute to solving some phenomena that occur in natural language, such as anaphor, metaphor and metonymy, ambiguity or co-reference, amongst others. The objective of this article is to describe the way FunGramKB (a knowledge base) integrates cultural knowledge in its conceptual modules and, in particular, how the information contained in the Onomasticon module of FunGramKB can contribute to maximising the informativeness and completeness of the whole system, thus resolving ambiguity problems in a determined linguistic phenomenon: anaphora.","PeriodicalId":42090,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas","volume":"9 1","pages":"01-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2014-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70615809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mancera, A. y Pano, A. (2013). El discurso político en Twitter: Análisis de mensajes que “trinan”. Barcelona: Anthropos.","authors":"P. Moya","doi":"10.4995/RLYLA.2014.1705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4995/RLYLA.2014.1705","url":null,"abstract":"El presente documento resena la obra de las profesoras Ana Mancera (de la Universidad de Sevilla) y Ana Pano (de la Universidad de Bolonia) llamada \"El discurso politico en Twitter: Analisis de los mensajes que trinan\".","PeriodicalId":42090,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas","volume":"9 1","pages":"117-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2014-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70615798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Split and unified functions in the formation of old English nouns and adjectives","authors":"Raquel Vea Escarza","doi":"10.4995/RLYLA.2014.2086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4995/RLYLA.2014.2086","url":null,"abstract":"This journal article draws a distinction between the split and unified functions obtaining in the formation of Old English nouns and adjectives. The starting point of the discussion is an enlarged inventory of lexical functions that draw on Meaning-Text Theory and structural-functional grammars and explain the change of meaning caused by prefixation and suffixation in Old English. The extended inventory of lexical functions consists of 33 functions and has been applied to ca. 7,500 affixed nouns and adjectives extracted from the lexical database Nerthus (www.nerthusproject.com). The distinction between split and unified functions, in such a way that the former can be realized by both prefixes and suffixes and the latter by either prefixation or suffixation, allows for some generalizations. Firstly, the analysis proves that there are more functions involved in prefixation than in suffixation. Secondly, prefixation is meaning oriented while suffixation is class oriented.","PeriodicalId":42090,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas","volume":"9 1","pages":"106-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2014-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70615941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How an idea germinates into a projext or the intransitive resultative construction with Entity-Specific change-of-state verbs","authors":"A. Rosca","doi":"10.4995/RLYLA.2014.1451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4995/RLYLA.2014.1451","url":null,"abstract":"This study discusses how seven of Levin’s (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs (i.e. bloom, blossom, flower, germinate, sprout, swell, and blister) are subsumed into the intransitive resultative construction by highlighting and making use of the external and internal constraints proposed by the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM; Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal 2007). External constraints refer to cognitive mechanisms such as high-level metaphor and/or metonymy whereas internal constraints are concerned with the encyclopedic and event structure makeup of verbs. The Internal Variable Conditioning constraint is at work when the information encapsulated by a predicate determines the choice of the Z element in an intransitive resultative construction. The semantic makeup of the verb swell and the entity undergoing swelling constrain the nature of the resultant entity Z which must be bigger in size or have a bigger value that the Y element (e.g. The work, which was originally meant to consist only of a few sheets, swelled into ten volumes).","PeriodicalId":42090,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas","volume":"9 1","pages":"97-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2014-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70615694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}