Dissertations / Theses: 'Spanish'

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Fehrmann, Georg. "Graphophonie des Spanischen : Aussprache und Schrift in der Perspektive des Fremdsprachenunterrichts /." Bonn : Romanistischer Verl, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/324706456.pdf.

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Attig, Remy. "Translation in the Borderlands of Spanish: Balancing Power in English Translations from Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37927.

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Literature emerging from borderland, transnational or diaspora contexts doesn’t always fit the mould of the dominant national culture where the author resides. Usually this literature is published in the language of the larger society, but sometimes authors prefer to use the language variety in which they write as one of many tools to resist assimilation and highlight their independent or hybrid identity; such is the case with Matilda Koén-Sarano's Judeo-Spanish folktales and Susana Chávez-Silverman’s Spanglish crónicas. When this is the case, translation from these varieties must be done in a way that preserves the resistance to assimilation in a different linguistic context. In this thesis I begin by defining Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish as language varieties, consider who uses them, who writes in them, and the political or personal motivations of the authors. I then problematize the broad issue of translating texts written in nonstandard language varieties. I consider power in translation generally and into English more specifically. I nuance the binary between rejecting translation completely, and embracing it wholeheartedly as essential. In the final two chapters I turn my attention to specific challenges that presented themselves in translations from Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish and explain how these challenges informed my approaches and strategies. No single translation approach or strategy emerges as a monolithic solution to all problems. Nevertheless, my original contribution to knowledge lies in the nuanced discussion and creative application of varying degrees of ethnolects (or literary dialects), writing based in phonetics, and intralinguistic translation that are explained and that are evidenced in the original translations found in the appendices.

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Arzac, Sergio. "Spanish Migration in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84163/.

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Spain underwent drastic social and political changes in the last decades of the twentieth century which also affected the nation’s patterns of emigration. Contemporary Spanish literature and film that portray these decades reflect the country’s fluctuating characteristics of migration. ¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe! (1971) by Pedro Lazaga, Coto vedado (1985) by Juan Goytisolo, El hijo del acordeonista (2003) by Bernardo Atxaga, and Yoyes (2000) by Helena Taberna demonstrate Spain’s migration trends during the last years of Franco’s dictatorship and the transition to democracy. The nation’s highly increased socioeconomic development in the 1970s and 1980s which eventually led to a first-world status also affected emigration, which can be seen in Carlota Fainberg (1999) by Antonio Muñoz Molina, Kasbah (2000) by Mariano Barroso, Restos de carmine (1999) by Juan Madrid, and Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009) by Isabel Coixet.

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Schönberger, Peter. "Amor hypermedialis : Logiken der Liebe im spanischen Gegenwartsroman ; von der Postguerra zur Postmoderne /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/326156011.pdf.

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Náñez, Fernández Emilio. "El diminutivo : historia y funciones en el español clásico y moderno /." Madrid : Ed. de la Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/528863738.pdf.

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Facchin, Clarissa <1996&gt. "Complementizer Deletion in European Spanish: A comparison between XVI-XVII century Spanish and current-day Spanish." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/19227.

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This study investigates the conditions that determine the omission of the complementizer ‘que’ (that) in simple complement clauses by comparing two stages of the peninsular Spanish language: the period between the 16th and 17th century, when this phenomenon became productive, and the 21st century. Specifically, I examine authentic data samples taken from four different corpora, in order to analyse the syntax associated with complementizerless clauses and the properties of the C-layer. I show that the omission of ‘que’ in current-day Spanish systematically correlates with some factors, such as the particular type of inflection of the embedded verb and the absence of overt lexical or pronominal subject in pre-verbal embedded position. The hypothesis I propose is that Complementizer Deletion (CD) in Spanish depends on the absence of the speaker’s temporal location in the syntax. One of the main arguments supporting my hypothesis comes from the analysis of Recomplementation phenomenon as an utterance-oriented structure (González i Planas 2014). I show, following Giorgi (2010), that there is evidence for claiming that there exist two complementizers ‘que’ having different properties and that the phenomenon of CD can be explained in these terms. This approach can also apply to classical Spanish, notwithstanding the differences concerning the temporal interpretations of the embedded event and the subject distributions that the syntax of complementizerless clauses presents at this stage of the language.

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Pons, Maria Angeles. "Regulating Spanish banking." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365582.

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Guerra, C. G. "Spanish causative constructions." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356504.

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Vicente, Nicolás Stindt. "Spanish subject pronouns." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät II, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16919.

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Die Dissertation präsentiert und diskutiert eine Reihe von Experimenten über Diskursanaphora im chilenischen Spanischen. Die Experimente zeigen wie Erwachsene und Kinder Subjektpersonalpronomen in verschiedenen Diskurskontexten interpretieren und generieren. Auf Spanisch können Subjektpronome entweder sichtbar (overt) oder unsichtbar (null) sein. Beide Formen werden im anaphorischen Diskurs gebraucht. Gegenstand der Dissertation ist es zu untersuchen, welche Unterschiede in der Bedeutung damit verbunden sind. Zunächst präsentiert die Arbeit einen generellen Standpunkt. Demzufolge besitzen die zwei Arten von Pronomen komplementäre anaphorische Präferenzen. Dies bedeutet, dass beim Vorhandensein von zwei möglichen Antezedenten zu erwarten ist, dass jede Form einen anderen Antezedenten wählt. Drei verschiedene Arten, Komplementarität zu konzipieren werden in Betracht gezogen. Im Verlauf der Dissertation werden ihre Vorhersagen in verschiedenen Interpretations- und Produktions-Experimenten getestet. Die Ergebnisse sprechen klar gegen die Idee von Komplimentarität. Im Anschluss wird in der Dissertation ein alternativer Standpunkt aufgezeigt welcher auf den rhetorischen Relationen zwischen den Sätzen eines Diskurses basiert. Entsprechend dieser Vorstellung kann die Pronomenauflösung als ein Nebeneffekt des Erschließens (Inferenz) dieser Relationen angesehen werden. Der Unterschied in der Verwendung von overt und null Pronomen würde dann nicht zuvor erschlossenen anaphorischen Präferenzen folgen, sondern wäre direkt abhängig von der Herstellung der Diskurskohärenz. In diesem Rahmen wird es möglich das Verhalten von Erwachsenen und Kindern in den Experimenten sinnhaft zu deuten.
This dissertation presents and discusses a series of experiments concerning how monolingual adult and child speakers of Chilean Spanish interpret and produce anaphoric subject personal pronouns in discourse. In Spanish, subject pronouns can be either overt or covert. Both forms are used in discourse anaphora. The dissertation investigates what difference in meaning they express. It begins by presenting a common general view, according to which the two kinds of pronouns have complementary anaphoric preferences. This means that, under the presence of two possible antecedents, each kind of pronoun is expected to pick out a different one. Three possible forms of conceiving complementarity are taken into account. Throughout the dissertation, their predictions are tested in different comprehension and production experiments. The results present strong evidence against the idea of complementarity. The dissertation considers then an alternative line of explanation, based on how the sentences of a discourse are related through rhetorical (coherence) relations. According to it, the resolution of pronouns can be seen as a by-product of inferring these relations. The difference between using overt and covert subject pronouns would not obey pre-determined anaphoric preferences (for subject and object antecedents, for instance), but depend on how pronouns contribute to the establishment of coherence in the discourse. Within this frame, better sense can be made of both adults’ and children’s performance in the experiments.

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Debicka-Dyer, Anna Michalina. "French and Spanish in Contact: Code-switching among Spanish Immigrants in France." MSSTATE, 2006. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11072006-174521/.

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This sociolinguistic study of the bilingual speech of Spanish immigrants in Toulouse, France focuses on the phenomenon of code-switching (CS). The analysis of the data showed that most CS was situational, rather than metaphorical. Three types of CS were found: insertion, alternation, and congruent lexicalization. Their examination revealed that the insertion of French words was more common than of Spanish items, the alternation was most frequent in repetitions, and the congruent lexicalization was present at the grammatical and structural level. The speech of the individual participants was also analyzed, and it was found that the sociological aspects greatly affected the use of CS. Finally, the analysis of the frequency effects was conducted revealing that the topic of the nouns influenced the language in which the nouns were used. The results proved that it is impossible to conduct a reliable grammatical analysis without including the sociolinguistic aspects.

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Shephard, Marion. "Mummy's boy : Don Juan in the modern Spanish and Spanish-American novel." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271032.

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The four main thesis novels are Alas's La Regenta (1884), Gald6s's Fortunata y Jacinta (1886-7), Puig's Boquitas pintadas (1969) and Cabrera Infante 's La Habana para un infante difill1to (1979). Specific criteria for the Don Juan novel are drawn up and seducers not fulfilling the prerequisites of the attractive, vain, sexually potent, deceitful and diabolically impious Don Juan rejected. Classical literature ( myths of Zeus, satyr stories, Ovid's AI'S AlI1atoria) and early Spanish ballads concerning irreverent gallants are posited as influences on the Don Juan legend. The two key plays are Tirso de Molina's EI bur/adOJ' de Sevilla (1630) and Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio (1844). Other sources include Don Juan works by Zamora, Espronceda, Moliere, Shadwell, Byron, Lenau, Shaw, Mozart and Sh'auss and the memoirs of Casanova. The progression is h'aced from the early Don Juan plays, in which the seducer's father is the sole parental presence, to the novel, in which Don Juan's domineering and adoring mother exercises a powerful influence on her son. Early classical mother figures such as Venus (Cupid), Liriope (Narcissus) and Jocasta (Oedipus) are analysed as her predecessors. The three main psychologists consulted regarding the seducer's umesolved Oedipus complex are Freud, Jung and Otto Rank. Other theorists include Maraft6n, Kierkegaard, Lafora, Brachfeld, Weinstein, Miller, Aramoni, Mandrell, Smeed and Kristeva. The thesis counterbalances the views of those who see Don Juan as immature, effeminate, melancholic or hysterical with others who consider him to be powerful, masculine, confident and eloquent, revealing the modern Don Juan to be a complex and multifaceted figure. The importance of the novels' musical themes is considered together with the different ways in which Don Juan is made to suffer in variations ofTirso's hellfire, The thesis demonstrates that, in spite of being metamorphosed into a mother's boy, Don Juan continues to wreak his infernal charm over author and audience alike.

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Hill, Jane H. "Spanish as a Pronominal-Argument Language: The Spanish Interlanguage of Mexicano Speakers." University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/226557.

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Stotts, Grant Perry. "L2 Spanish Speakers' Attitudes Toward Selected Features of Peninsular and Mexican Spanish." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4076.

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Many studies have been done on language attitudes, including attitudes toward languages in contact, various dialects of a language, nonnative speech, and attitudes of second-language (L2) learners toward the language that they are learning. Typically the studies of second-language learning deal with the attitudes toward the language in general rather than toward specific varieties within the language. The present study measures the attitudes of L2 learners of Spanish who lived in Spain, Mexico and Argentina toward native speakers from Spain and Mexico. The nonnative speakers listened to recordings of four native speakers, a male and a female from Spain, and a male and a female from Mexico, and rated each on a series of characteristics such as intelligence, education, attractiveness, work ethic, and honesty. T-tests were run to determine whether or not the time spent in one of the countries affected the attitudes toward each variety of Spanish. The results show that the judges had a tendency to give higher ratings to the speakers that they could understand the easiest. In addition, there was an overall tendency to rate both of the speakers from Spain higher, as was found in studies by Álvarez, Martínez and Urdaneta (2001), as well as Montes-Alcalá (2011), and to rate the females higher, supporting what both González Martínez (2008) and Labov (1972) found.

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Insagurbe, Gorka, and Jorge Castillo. "Spanish Wine in Sweden." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1257.

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The new century has provoked the liberalization of the world economy and market globalization. International marketing has opened the borders for all countries, which can compete with the same competitive tools, increasing the rivalry among them. This

thesis deals with the wine sector and the changes that this sector has suffered in previous years, due to the entrance of new producer countries and the recession that has been produced by European wines, called “Old World” producers.

In this study we will make an analysis of the Swedish wine market, describing how the different players act; from consumers to the special system of alcohol distribution that is controlled by the government, all the way to the producers and kinds of wine that

compose the market.

Among the different wine producers we will make a thorough study of the Spanish case, given that we come from Spain, where the wine industry has a special relevance. Furthermore, Spain is one of the most important wine exporters to Sweden, but in the last years it has suffered a small decrease in its market share.

So apart from studying the current situation of the wine sector in Sweden and how consumers perceive the wine of “Old World” countries, such as France, Italy and Spain and “New World” countries, such as Australia, Chile and South Africa, our main objective is to make some strategic recommendations in order to improve the situation

for Spanish wine.

The study will focus on a quantitative research through a self completion questionnaire, measuring the main features of wine (quality, price, nationality, etc.) and also on different theories that compose the marketing and strategic fields.

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Wheatley, Carmen. "Donne and Spanish literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235777.

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Lima, Duarte Nuno Boavida. "Banco Popular: spanish banks." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10442.

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Тугаєнко, В. М. "Spanish borrowings in English." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2021. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/18290.

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Andueza, Patricia L. "Rhetorical Exclamative in Spanish." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1315414519.

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Cobos, Ruben. "New Mexican Spanish Proverbs." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624785.

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Espinosa, Aurelio M. "California Spanish Folklore Riddles." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624786.

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Sánchez, Fajardo José Antonio. "Anglicisms in Cuban Spanish." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/63468.

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Beltran, Margarita. "Comparing High Vowel Perception in Spanish Monolinguals, English Monolinguals and Spanish-English Bilinguals." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579002.

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Recent acoustic descriptions have shown that vowels across languages have different acoustic properties. The main acoustic difference between the high vowels /i/ and /u/ lies on their respective second formant (F2) values, and the perception and production of these vowels is fairly different for speakers of English and Spanish. In particular, /u/ is closer to /i/ in English than it is in Spanish. The present study investigates whether proficient Spanish-English bilinguals categorize the /i/ and /u/ differently depending on the language context in which the vowel phonemes are presented. Their results were compared to those of English and Spanish monolinguals. I observed how the three groups of participants responded to the same set of sounds, which contained vowel tokens ranging from /i/ to /u/. I looked for the step in the continuum in which the participants ceased to listen the vowel /i/ and started hearing /u/. The bilingual and monolingual participants in this study did not show a significant difference in this regard. However, a further analysis focusing on the monolingual participants of this study and the monolingual participants of a previous study suggests that there exists a perception-production asymmetry of the vowels /i/ and /u/.

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Ellison, Vickie Renee. "What Teachers Know Makes a Difference: A Professional Knowledge Framework for Non-Native Spanish-Speaking Teachers who Teach Spanish to Spanish-Speakers." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392140236.

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Larreta, Zulategui Juan Pablo. "Fraseología contrastiva del alemán y el español : teoría y práctica a partir de un corpus bilingüe de somatismos /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/324969872.pdf.

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Stevenson, Jeffrey Lee. "The sociolinguistic variables of Chilean voseo /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8365.

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Mighetto, David. "Estudios morfosintʹacticos de sustantivos verbales en -iʹon y -miento en español moderno /." Göteborg, Sweden : Göteborgs universitet, Institutionen för romanska språk, Avdelningen för spanska, 1998. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=009041230&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Gregory, Amy Ellen. "A discourse-pragmatic analysis of indicative and subjunctive mood use in Costa Rican Spanish /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Rhoades, William B. "Assessing early literacy development in Spanish speakers when Spanish is the language of instruction." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10070.

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Buré-Reyes, Annelly. "Neuropsychological test performance of Spanish speakers : is performance similar across different Spanish speaking subgroups? /." Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/burea/annellybure-reyes.html.

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Young, Max Joe. "An inquiry into the Latin and Spanish cultural presentations of Spanish first year textbooks." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/fall2006/max_j_young/Young_Max_J_200701_edd.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007.
"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Under the direction of William M. Reynolds. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-201)

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Bates, Daniel K. "What Do Students Think? University Spanish Students' Experience Communicating Online with Native Spanish Speakers." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6290.

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Modern technology has provided foreign language teachers with several methods of connecting their classes and students to native speakers of target languages. Much of the existing research about these online conversations is focused on changes in students' proficiency or cultural sensitivity. Although valuable, the research is lacking in understanding students' experience online including positive and negative feelings, challenges, and students' overall opinion of the exchanges' usefulness. This study was conducted in an effort to better understand students' experience communicating online with native speakers. A third semester Spanish class at Brigham Young University consisting of 18 students was selected as a sample. These students were required to speak online with native Spanish speakers for at least 20 minutes in Spanish each week. Students completed weekly surveys, a final survey, and three students were selected for a semi-structured interview. This study was conducted using a mixed-methods approach, involving both quantitative and qualitative data. The data revealed common struggles that students faced during online exchanges, methods students used for coping with these difficulties, areas of perceived growth as a result of the exchanges, and social factors that had significant impact on students' experience. The study concludes with recommendations of what foreign language educators can do to support their own classes in similar online exchanges. Areas of further investigation regarding online exchanges with native speakers are also recommended.

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Pino, Alcalde Adrián. "Essays on the Spanish Macroeconomy." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399165.

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Esta tesis doctoral intenta arrojar luz en dos temas macroeconomicos de gran actualidad en la economía española. El diseño del sistema de Seguridad Social, y la economía sumergida. En el primer capitulo desarrollo un modelo teórico para estudiar el desempleo en el ciclo de vida conjuntamente con las decisiones de jubilación, y poder valorar el impacto que tienen las interacciones entre estas dos políticas a la hora de plantear posibles alternativas al sistema actual. El modelo nos permite estudiar efectos en el desempleo, jubilación, decisiones de ahorro, o la cuantía de las pensiones de cambios de políticas en la tasa de reemplazo, o modificaciones en la generosidad de los subsidios de desempleo. Con este modelo busco políticas óptimas en desempleo y jubilación. La novedad de este artículo es que ante la presencia de desempleo, una tasa de reemplazo positiva en el sistema de pensiones es óptima. Debido al carácter heterogéneo de los agentes en el modelo, se puede además medir el impacto que dichas políticas tienen en la desigualdad. En el segundo capítulo estudiamos un problema prevalente de la economía española, la evasión fiscal, extendiendo los modelos macroeconómicos previos de economía sumergida añadiendo evasión fiscal en los impuestos al consumo. El modelo presentado es el primero que ataca la evasión del impuesto de la renta y de los impuestos al consumo de manera conjunta. Las consecuencias de dichas inclusiones en el modelo son importantes, y descubrimos que ciertas políticas que parecen factibles sin evasión fiscal pueden no serlo si consideramos dicho fenómeno. Nuestro marco teórico produce curvas de Laffer en las que los ingresos tributarios caen de manera importante cuando los tipos impositivos se elevan por encima de valores muy razonables. Los límites impuestos por la evasión en el impuesto al consumo/IVA son mucho más estrictos, y se observan caídas de los ingresos a unos impuestos superiores al 10\%. en el tercer capítulo extendemos el marco teórico expuesto en el capítulo anterior y exploramos las propiedades cíclicas de la evasión fiscal. Con una modelización muy simple de la economía sumergida, y utilizado un shock en la productividad total de los factores que afecta igualmente al sector legal e ilegal, somos capaces de producir una evolución contracíclica de la economía sumergida, hecho que ha sido observado por la literatura empírica. La causa de esto es el coste de oportunidad en terminos de tiempo que tiene participar en la economía sumergida, y dicho coste puede no ser asumible en tiempos cuando la productividad del trabajo es alta.
This doctoral thesis tries to shed some light on two topics of current relevance in Spanish macroeconomics. The design of the social insurance system and the problem of tax evasion. In the first chapter I develop a framework to study life cycle unemployment and retirement together, in order to have some foundation on how the interactions between these two phenomena should be taken into account when taking decisions about changing the public social insurance system currently active in Spain. This model allows us to study nontrivial effects on unemployment, retirement decisions, savings and size of PAYG pensions of common policies such as changes in replacement rates in unemployment insurance, or of retirement pensions. I use this framework to find optimal policies in unemployment and retirement. The novelty of this article is that in the presence of unemployment risk, a positive steady state replacement rate in pensions benefits is optimal, together with sizable unemployment benefits. Moreover, this framework is also useful to study the impact that unemployment and retirement policies have on inequality. In the second chapter we look at a prevalent problem of the Spanish economy: tax evasion. We extend previous macroeconomic frameworks on the shadow economy with consumption tax evasion. The model presented here is the first one to jointly tackle tax evasion on both labour income tax and value added/consumption tax. The consequences for taxation of this model are important, and we show that it may be infeasible to implement tax shifts implying significant reductions of income tax in favour of higher excises on consumption. Our model produces Laffer curves in which revenues fall quickly when tax rates are raised above very reasonable levels. The limits imposed by tax evasion are stricter for VAT, for which the \emph{slippery slope} of the Laffer curve starts roughly at a mere rate of 10\%. On the third chapter we extend the theoretical framework of tax evasion and explore the cyclical properties of tax evasion. With a fairly simple modelling of the underground economy, using a TFP shock that affects both the legal an illegal sector symettrically, we are able to produce a countercyclical evolution of the shadow economy, fact that has been pointed out by the empirical literature. The reason is the opportunity cost in terms of time that participating in the underground economy imply, and it may be not worth the trouble at times when the productivity is high.

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Rodriguez, Pamela. "The rhythm of Spanish prose." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19265.

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Morris, Richard E. "Stylistic variation in Spanish phonology." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1232556920.

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Mory, Jenna Lynn Becker Misha Karen. "Verbal acquisition in L2 Spanish." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1855.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 11, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Linguistics." Discipline: Linguistics; Department/School: Linguistics.

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Dȩ̮bicka-Dyer, Anna Michalina. "French and Spanish in contact." Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2006. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-11072006-174521.

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Vergara, Alexander. "Rubens and his Spanish patrons /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37558422k.

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Share, Donald. "The making of Spanish democracy /." New York ; Westport (Conn.) ; London : Praeger, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37665651c.

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Baker, Gary Kenneth. "Palatal phenomena in spanish phonology." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0006662.

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Melnikova, Yulia. "Spanish Real Estate Market Analysis." Master's thesis, Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-259902.

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At the beginning of 2000-ies the real estate market of residential property in Spain considered to be one the most popular and fast-growing real estate market in Europe, which attracted a great number of investment into the country and thus contributed greatly to the development of the national economy of Spain. However, because of the economic crisis in the country, residential real estate market collapsed significantly. At the present time, the Spanish real estate market of residential property market is recovering from the recession to the pre-crisis level as the prices for residential real estate property has started increasing due to the high demand for it. All this factors positively affect the national economy of Spain. In order to obtain the major aim of the thesis, it is crucial to conduct a retrospective overview of the residential real estate market of Spain before the crisis and provide a bene-ficial real estate market analysis of the current situation on the market of residential proper-ty.

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Herrera, Roberto. "On Spanish prepositions : a syntactic and semantic analysis /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Rhone, Jeffrey Andrew. "Estimation of reproductive, production, and progeny growth differences among f1 boer-spanish and spanish females." Texas A&M University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3988.

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The study was performed in the Edwards Plateau region of West Texas from the years of 1994 through 2004 and involved data collected on 291 F1 Boer-Spanish and Spanish does and their 1,941 kids. Differences were estimated between dam types for growth traits, fertility traits, prolificacy, kid growth traits, survivability, longevity, and progeny growth. The mixed model analysis of variance procedure was used for all traits, except doe survivability where chi-square analysis was used. The F1 Boer-Spanish does were significantly heavier at birth than Spanish does, but there was no significant difference between the F1 Boer-Spanish and Spanish does for weaning weight. The F1 Boer-Spanish does had a significantly heavier body weight at breeding than the Spanish does (46 vs. 43 kg). No significant differences were found between breed types for fertility traits. Age of doe was a significant source of variation for fertility. There was no significant difference between the two doe breed types for number of kids born or number of kids weaned. Age of doe significantly affected both number of kids born and number of kids weaned. There was no significant differencebetween breed for total litter weight at weaning. For kid birth weight there was no significant difference between dam breed types. Kid weaning weight and pre-weaning average daily gain were not significantly different between dam breed types. Age at time of leaving the herd for all causes was 6.15 years for F1 Boer-Spanish does and 5.56 years for Spanish does (P = 0.06). There was no significant difference between breeds for proportions of does leaving the herd for the three main reasons. Although F1 Boer-Spanish does were significantly heavier for birth weight and body weight at breeding, there were no significant differences for weaning weights, reproduction, production, and progeny growth differences at weaning between F1 Boer- Spanish and Spanish does. When kid production was measured at weaning there was no difference between breeds. However the greater body weight of the F1 Boer-Spanish does at breeding suggests that if kid production was measured at a later endpoint, a significant difference may be realized.

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Abdi, Klara. "Spanish heritage language learners in Canadian high school Spanish classes : negotiating ethnolinguistic identities and ideologies." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12569.

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Many young people today are growing up with two or more languages. The development of their heritage language (HL) plays a role in the learners’ intellectual development, cultural identification, and family and HL community relations. Growing numbers of students are thus choosing to enrol in high school or post-secondary language classes for their HL development, posing challenges for teachers who generally have to teach them alongside other (non-HL) “foreign language” (FL) students. Although this area of research, particularly in relation to the teaching of Spanish in the United States, is growing, few studies have looked at the interactions of HL and FL students in mixed classes at the high school level in Canada or elsewhere. This ethnographic case study investigated the interactions and positionings of Spanish HL (SHL) students in intermediate high school Spanish FL (SFL) classes. Three classes were observed over a six-month period and interviews were conducted with all participating students and teachers. One class was then chosen for in-depth analysis for this thesis. The goal of the study was to analyse the nature of the interactions of SHL and SFL students in order to provide insights into how best to accommodate various types of students in one language course. The study found that the SHL students were positioned in various ways depending on the instructional (whole class or group) setting and the nature of the students’ relationships to those they were working with. Their various types and levels of language expertise was one factor in how they were perceived, with greater oral expertise at times making their cultural heritage more salient to their teacher and classmates. The SHL students’ ages and social group affiliations were also important factors affecting their status in class. In fact, their ages or particular groups of friends were sometimes found to be greater factors in how their classmates and teacher perceived them than their language expertise. The study offers new insights into the complex nature of teaching SHL and SFL students in one class at the high school level and offers implications for pedagogy, theory and future research.

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Thomas, D. G. "History, commitment and propaganda in the Spanish novel of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1966." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374924.

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Mount, Cameron D. "Therapists' Perceived Influence of Language: Second Language Spanish Speaking Therapists with Native Spanish-Speaking Clients." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1872.pdf.

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Boley, Shelly J. "Socio-academic identities of Spanish heritage language learners instructional implications for high school Spanish teachers /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1473183.

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Natolo, Michelle. "Spanish Language Media in Australia: Understanding the Rise and Evolution of Australia's Spanish Language Newspapers." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/378079.

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As a nation with a strong history of migration, Australia has become a rich multicultural society with an extensive history of migrant and Indigenous media. For migrant communities, community ethnic newspapers created ‘by’ the community ‘for’ the community, are powerful, yet overlooked cultural, informational, and linguistic resources. Community ethnic media are a vital part of multicultural Australia as they assist individuals to find a sense of community, belonging, and place. Media are a crucial space where migrant communities can debate and address issues and events that mainstream media ignores and are important mediums where communities understand themselves and one another. With an infinite number of community ethnic media platforms available from print to broadcast to digital, matters of access, representation and having their audiences’ voice heard and recognised has become more important than ever. Although research examining community ethnic newspapers in Australia has flourished since Gilson and Zubrzycki’s pioneering work on the history and role of Australia’s ethnic media in the 1960s, specific research as to why and how Spanish language newspapers were produced and consumed in multicultural Australia has remained unexamined. In particular, we lack knowledge concerning how Spanish language newspapers are an alternative space in which this invisible heterogeneous migrant community, not only has a voice and space to publish news and information but where it also maintains and promotes the Spanish language and culture. This thesis addresses these knowledge gaps for Australia and elsewhere by examining and discussing the following three themes. First, the emergence and development of print and online Spanish language newspapers in Australia. Second, how the production and consumption of Australia’s Spanish language newspapers influence language, culture, and identity in relation to the past, present, and future. Third, how Spanish language newspapers represent an imagined community, and contribute to a sense of place and belonging amongst community ethnic media producers and consumers. This thesis analyses the results of a three-step study, drawing upon data derived from mixed-methods research. First, a community-based survey of first and second generation Hispanics from Australia’s three largest capital cities — Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney — examined the reasons for print and online Spanish language newspaper production and consumption. Second, semi-structured interviews with ethnic press professionals examined the emergence and evolution of the Spanish language press and the significance of the publication-audience relationship. Third, a textual analysis of print and online Spanish language newspapers verified and triangulated data from the community survey and interviews. The analysis of the survey and interview data in this thesis provides insights into whether and how Spanish language newspapers have influenced Australia’s socio-cultural and linguistic landscape. This thesis illuminates our understanding by demonstrating how Spanish language newspapers instil a sense of solidarity via a shared language, experience, and space, not only within the Hispanic sphere in Australia but also within a wider global sphere. The principal finding of this thesis is that despite Australia’s monolingual landscape, the Spanish language press continues to satisfy and maintain the linguistic, informational, and cultural needs of first and subsequent generations of Hispanics. This thesis identifies four key elements in Australia’s Spanish language press. First, a need and market for Spanish language newspapers exists, as Hispanics continue to be under-represented and invisible in the Australian mainstream media. Second, Spanish language newspapers are a cultural and linguistic resource which creates a sense of place and belonging for Hispanics in multicultural Australia. Third, this thesis identifies that Australia’s diverse Spanish-speaking community consumes Spanish language newspapers not only to fulfil their informational and social needs, but to maintain Spanish as a community language, culture, and identity via a collective media space. That is, these newspapers have created an imagined sense of belonging to a pan-ethnic community, despite the community’s diverse national origins and cultural and linguistic heritage. Fourth, digital communication technologies have contributed to the expansion of an imagined community, which has made it easier, cheaper, and faster to maintain and acquire a transnational audience. The findings of this thesis have implications for promoting community ethnic media, language and identity, and the use of digital communication technologies to facilitate community ethnic media opportunities.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc
Arts, Education and Law
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Tavizón, Jessica Maribel. "The Spanish Language Proficiency of Sequential Bilingual Children and the Spanish-English Language Proficiency Scale." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4222.

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The challenge facing children learning language bilingually has led to efforts to improve the assessment and treatment of language learning difficulties. One of these efforts is the development and validation of the Spanish-English Language Proficiency Scale (SELPS). Previous research has been performed to validate the scale for English language proficiency but not for Spanish language proficiency. Twenty-four sequential bilingual children produced spontaneous narrative language samples that were rated using the SELPS and coded for language sample variables using the Systemic Analysis of Language Transcripts software. Several language sample variables, most notably the Subordination Index, the number of omitted bound morphemes, and the number of code-switched words, were correlated with the SELPS subscale scores and total score. Findings have implications for screening the Spanish language proficiency of Spanish-English bilingual children who are between four and eight years of age.

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Wilkinson, Sara Lynn. "A Survey of Utah Spanish Teachers Regarding the Instruction of Heritage Language Students of Spanish." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2331.

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It is imperative that educators understand the current state of heritage language education because many locations have experienced large increases in their heritage language populations in recent years. This study reports on the findings of a statewide survey of secondary Spanish teachers in Utah regarding the instruction of Spanish heritage language students. Their perspectives give insight into Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) education in both traditional Spanish foreign language and heritage language classes. The information gathered describes the availability of specialized courses, the prevalence of SHL students in Spanish classes, and these students' backgrounds. It also describes the characteristics of Spanish teachers in terms of their beliefs and attitudes related to teaching SHL students and their preparation for doing so. Other issues considered include placement, materials, creating specialized classes, instructional approaches and accommodations, areas of emphasis, and teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of both their traditional and specialized Spanish classes in meeting SHL students' needs. Results indicate that specialized classes are not yet widely available in Utah, many teachers lack training to work with SHL students, and SHL students come from a variety of backgrounds. In traditional Spanish classes, teachers use many approaches to accommodate SHL students, and their schools have a variety of experiences in attempting to create specialized classes. Teachers of specialized Spanish classes report that their schools vary in whether or not they offer classes that are differentiated by levels, and that their classes' principal objectives typically include literacy and grammar. These teachers also typically perceive that their Spanish classes are more effective in meeting SHL students' needs than do teachers of traditional Spanish classes. In addition, this study includes many recommendations to improve Spanish heritage language instruction.

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Robert, Jordi Vidal. "Historical institutions and their legacy: the Spanish Inquisition's motivations and impact on Spanish economic development." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12871.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
In this thesis, I study the motivations, development and consequences of the Spanish Inquisition. The study of the role this institution played during its long existence and the motivations of its activity sheds light on the political and economic development of Spain. I also examine the channels through which the Spanish Inquisition affected Spanish economic development. The first chapter analyzes the motivations behind inquisitorial activity. I show that the Inquisition was a repressive tool of the Spanish Kings by using Spanish war activity as a determinant of repression. The basic idea is that the government's demand for reperssion was greater in periods of war, because war increased the likelihood of internal revolts. To minimize the threat of rebellion, the Inquisition conducted more trials when Spanish war activity was intense. To test this hypothesis, I develop a theoretical framework and I assemble time series data for seven Spanish inquisitorial districts on activities of the Inquisition as well as wars conducted by the Spanish Crown. I show that there exists an inverse-U relationship between wars and inquisitorial activity. My results are robust to the inclusion of data on severity of the weather (droughts), wheat prices and adjustments for spillover effects from other districts than the main district under analysis. I also show that the Inquisition did not conduct trials to finance Spanish wars or to expropriate. The second chapter analyzes the long-term political and economic consequences of the Spanish Inquisition. Using a dataset on five regions, fourteen provinces and 947 municipalities on inquisitorial activity, population, economic and political outcomes, I show that regions more affected by the Inquisition are associated with a lower economic development than regions less affected by it. Moreover, I find that regions more affecected by the Inquisition are associated with more negative attitudes towards scientific advances. The third chapter (with Francisco J. Pino) exploits data from papal conclaves to analyze how disagreement among the cardinals shaped conflict within the Papal States in 1295- 1878. Our finding is that polarization (rather than fractionalization) increases both the likelihood of an internal conflict as well as its intensity. This provides support to recent theories concerning determinants of ethnic and political conflict.

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