A Comparison of the Grammatical Production of Child Heritage Speakers of Spanish across Language and Grade: Kindergarten and Grade 1

Rodriguez, Estrella; Bustamante, Kristina N.; Wood, Carla; Sunderman, Gretchen

doi:10.3390/languages2040027

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“…Alternatively, sequential HSs with relatively fewer opportunities to use the heritage language, e.g., because they live in an area with very few Spanish-speakers, might end up with a less "target-like" knowledge of mood than their AofAE would predict. Consistent with this idea is evidence that child HSs of Spanish can either become less accurate with subjunctive mood over time (Merino 1983) or (slightly) more accurate (Rodriguez et al 2017), presumably due to either different "frequencies of L1 contact" and/or differential access to formal education in Spanish.…”

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The Late(r) Bird Gets the Verb? Effects of Age of Acquisition of English on Adult Heritage Speakers’ Knowledge of Subjunctive Mood in Spanish

Giancaspro

2019

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Many previous studies have found that adult heritage speakers exhibit significant variability in their production and comprehension of mood morphology in Spanish. Nonetheless, it remains unclear what specific factors predict heritage speakers’ likelihood of exhibiting such variability. The present study contributes to this question by testing the effect of both (a) age-of-acquisition of English and (b) Spanish proficiency on heritage speakers’ productive and receptive knowledge of mood morphology. Seventeen “early” heritage speakers (age of acquisition of English: 0 to 3.5 years), 20 “late” heritage speakers (age of acquisition of English: 4 to 6 years), and 18 later childhood immigrants (age of arrival in the US: 8 to 12 years) completed a Contextualized Elicited Production Task and a Mood Preference Task. Results of the two experiments suggest that the later childhood immigrants, despite “overusing” subjunctive in +Presupposition adjectival relative clauses, are significantly more likely than “early” and “late” heritage speakers to produce and prefer subjunctive mood in expected subjunctive contexts (with para que and in -Presupposition adjectival relative clauses). Within the heritage speaker groups, however, Spanish proficiency was a stronger predictor of subjunctive knowledge than age of acquisition of English, a finding with implications for both heritage language research and pedagogy.

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The Late(r) Bird Gets the Verb? Effects of Age of Acquisition of English on Adult Heritage Speakers’ Knowledge of Subjunctive Mood in Spanish

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2019

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“…Previous studies have examined the acquisition of the subjunctive mood in the Spanish of monolingual children (e.g., Blake, 1983;Pérez-Leroux, 1993, 1998, bilingual children (e.g., Rodríguez, Bustamante, Wood & Sunderman, 2017;Silva-Corvalán, 2014), adult second language learners (e.g., Borgonovo et al, 2015), and adult HSs (e.g., Montrul, 2007Montrul, , 2009Montrul & Perpiñán, 2011;Perez-Cortes, 2016, inter alia). This section will focus on three studies of HSs' oral production of subjunctive mood, highlighting specifically both (a) the extent to which HSs' subjunctive mood knowledge resembled or diverged from that of Spanish-dominant controls and (b) how the authors of these studies conceptualized such similarities and differences.…”

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Over, Under and Around: Spanish Heritage Speakers’ Production (and Avoidance) of Subjunctive Mood

Giancaspro

2019

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The present study explores the subjunctive mood production of 29 heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish (17 advanced proficiency and 12 intermediate proficiency) and 14 Spanish-dominant controls (SDCs). All participants completed a Contextualized Elicited Production Task (CEPT), which tested their oral production of both lexically-selected (intensional) and contextually-selected (polarity) mood morphology in Spanish. Between-group analyses of the CEPT reveal that the HSs diverge significantly from the SDCs in subjunctive production, specifically by underproducing, overproducing, and avoiding subjunctive mood morphology. Despite these differences, however, the HSs still exhibited sensitivity to mood, producing significantly more subjunctive mood in expected subjunctive contexts than in expected indicative contexts. Based on HSs’ knowledge of the subjunctive, which both resembles and also diverges from that of the SDCs, it is argued that categorizing HSs as having either acquired or not acquired mood in Spanish is descriptively and conceptually problematic.

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Child heritage speakers’ acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in volitional and adverbial clauses

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2022

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A Comparison of the Grammatical Production of Child Heritage Speakers of Spanish across Language and Grade: Kindergarten and Grade 1

Cited by 4 publications

References 60 publications

The Late(r) Bird Gets the Verb? Effects of Age of Acquisition of English on Adult Heritage Speakers’ Knowledge of Subjunctive Mood in Spanish

The Late(r) Bird Gets the Verb? Effects of Age of Acquisition of English on Adult Heritage Speakers’ Knowledge of Subjunctive Mood in Spanish

Over, Under and Around: Spanish Heritage Speakers’ Production (and Avoidance) of Subjunctive Mood

Child heritage speakers’ acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in volitional and adverbial clauses

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