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first-generation

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first-gen·er·a·tion (fûrstjn-rshn)
adj.
1. Of or relating to a person who has left one country and settled in another.
2. Of or relating to a person or persons whose parents are immigrants.
3. Of, relating to, or being the first form or version available to users: first-generation computer software.
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first-generation [ˈfɜːstˌdʒenəˈreɪʃən] ADJde primera generación
he's a first-generation Americanes americano de primera generación
first-generation [ˈfɜːstˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃn] adj (immigrant) → di prima generazione; (computer) → della prima generazione
first-generation [ˈfɜːstˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃn] adj (immigrant) → di prima generazione; (computer) → della prima generazione


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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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