LINGUIST List 23.691
Thu Feb 09 2012
Diss: Socioling/Spanish: Checa-Garcia: 'Syntactic Development ...'
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Date: 09-Feb-2012
From: Irene Checa-Garcia <irene.checa
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Subject: Syntactic Development Measures Applied to Adolescents in Almería: Descriptive milestones and methodological contributions
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Institution: Universidad de Almería
Program: Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2004
Author: Irene Checa-Garcia
Dissertation Title: Syntactic Development Measures Applied to Adolescents in Almería: Descriptive milestones and methodological contributions
Linguistic Field(s):
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s):
Spanish (spa)
Dissertation Director:
Francisco Joaquín García Marcos
Dissertation Abstract:
Dissertation title in Spanish:Medidas del desarrollo sintáctico en adolescentes almerienses: hitosdescriptivos y aportes metodológicos
In my dissertation I investigated the effects of several social factors(such as course level, social class, sex, type of school and area of theschool) on various measures of syntactic development for adolescent nativewritten language, some of them commonly used in this kind of research,other new ones that I designed. The results showed that social classtogether with the course level had the strongest effects over most of thesyntactic indexes used, showing quite statistically significant results. Inaddition, a study of regression showed that social class and are of theschool were contributing together in producing most of their effects. Otherrelevant findings pertained to the methodology to be followed; inparticular, the results provide new reasons to use the rewriting method ofelicitation, and new indexes to reflect the importance of errors whenmeasuring syntactic development.
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