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Translations first-generation [ˈfɜːstˌdʒenəˈreɪʃən] ADJ → de primera generación he's a first-generation American → es americano de primera generación first-generation [ˈfɜːstˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃ/ən] adj (immigrant) → di prima generazione; (computer) → della prima generazione first-generation [ˈfɜːstˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃ/ən] adj (immigrant) → di prima generazione; (computer) → della prima generazione How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| As defined by Silva-Corvalan (1995), if first-generation speakers of Spanish favor certain discourse-pragmatic contexts for the occurrence of a form and the same favoring contexts fail to elicit the expected forms in the speech of those in the second and third-generations, the forms in question are considered to be undergoing simplification (p. First-generation students, or students whose parents did not attend college, represent 27% of all graduating high school students. The vast majority of research on this topic, however, has focused on the dichotomous perspective of first-generation versus non-first-generation students. |
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