Christine Shea
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christine Shea is involved.
Articles
2022 Mapping different L1 dialects to L2 words Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:5, pp. 598–627 | Article
We ask how dialect experience affects the perception of modified L2 words by speakers of different L1 dialects. Colombian Spanish speakers from Barranquilla (s-aspirating dialect) and Bogota (non-s-aspirating dialect) carried out cross-dialect phonological priming experiments in Spanish and L2… read more
2021 Chapter 5. The complicated timeline of Spanish: Implications for lexical processing East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky, Gupton, Timothy and Elizabeth Gielau (eds.), pp. 93–106 | Chapter
Sound change is a dynamic process that shapes the phonology and lexicon of a language across a language’s history. The existence of loanwords and cultismos (learned forms) complicate this process. Not all words are equally subjected to sound change. In Spanish, cultismos and loanwords often… read more
2021 Chapter 9. L2 proficiency and L2 dialect processing during study abroad Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities, Menke, Mandy R. and Paul A. Malovrh (eds.), pp. 193–216 | Chapter
In this chapter, we examine how proficiency and L2 dialect processing interact over the course of a three-month study abroad program in Buenos Aires, Argentina in L1 English/L2 Spanish learners. To measure dialect processing changes, participants completed an auditory form-priming task in which… read more