Chapter 5. Null and Overt Subjects in the Developing Grammars (L1 English/ L1 Spanish) of Two Bilingual Twins

Liceras, Juana M.; Fuertes, Raquel Fernández; Pérez-Tattam, Rocío

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“…Manuela is an English-Spanish bilingual child who was exposed to the Cuban Spanish spoken by one of her parents and, given the fact that the use of overt subjects, specifically subject pronouns in Caribbean Spanish, is more abundant than in the case of other varieties of Spanish, Paradis and Navarro (2003) cannot conclude whether it is this specific type of input or interlinguistic influence that accounts for Manuela's larger production of overt subjects when compared to the production of monolingual children. In fact, in Liceras, Fernández Fuertes, and Pérez Tattam (2008), we suggest that, in the production of null and overt subjects by Simon and Leo (FerFuLice corpus in CHILDES), there is no indication of explicit subject overuse. Since these twins were exposed to peninsular Spanish, it may well be the case that Manuela's overuse of overt subjects be a consequence of the type of input that she was exposed to, rather than of interference from English.…”

Section: Subject Omission In Child Languagementioning

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Overt subjects and copula omission in the Spanish and the English grammar of English–Spanish bilinguals: On the locus and directionality of interlinguistic influence

2011

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The presence of non-adult patterns of omission/production of functional categories has occupied a central place in both monolingual and bilingual child language acquisition research. In bilingual acquisition a central learnability issue has been to determine whether interlinguistic influence would interact with those patterns. In this article, the authors analyse the omission/production of subject pronouns in the developing Spanish grammar and of copula be in the developing English grammar of two EnglishSpanish simultaneous bilingual children in order to address the issues of the locus and directionality of interlinguistic influence. The authors argue that the directionality of interlinguistic influence is determined by the need to implement core operations of the computational system and that the lexical-semantic interface is an area of the grammar where interlinguistic influence occurs.

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Overt subjects and copula omission in the Spanish and the English grammar of English–Spanish bilinguals: On the locus and directionality of interlinguistic influence

2011

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“…However, the proportion of postverbal subjects with unaccusative verbs decreased steadily with age: it started at 85% (the elder sibling) and 64.7% (the younger sibling), but by the age range of 4;0-5;11 it had decreased to only 17.3% (data from both children combined). Nevertheless, during the same age range, the percentage of postverbal subjects with unergatives and transitives was considerably lower (6.2%), suggesting that 7 Three of these children were also studied in previous studies, namely Paradis and Navarro (2003), Liceras et al (2008) and Liceras et al (2012).…”

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The Development of Subject Position in Dutch-Dominant Heritage Speakers of Spanish: From Age 9 to Adulthood

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This exploratory study investigates the knowledge of word order in intransitive sentences by heritage speakers of Spanish of different age groups: 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds and adults. In doing so, we aim to fill a gap in the heritage language literature, which, to date, has mainly focused on adult heritage speakers and preschool bilingual children. The results from a judgment task reveal that child- and adolescent heritage speakers do not entirely resemble monolingual age-matched children in the acquisition of subjects in Spanish, nor do they assimilate adult heritage speakers. The data suggest that several different processes can occur simultaneously in the acquisition of word order in heritage speakers: monolingual-like acquisition, delayed acquisition, and attrition. An analysis of the influence of extraneous variables suggests that most of these effects are likely to be the consequence of quantitatively reduced input in the heritage language and increased input in the majority language.

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“…5 SeeLiceras et al (2008Liceras et al ( , 2011 for a discussion on the interpretation of Paradis & Navarro's data and Ezeizabarrena (in press) for a more detailed discussion on the absence of overproduction of Ss in several corpora of early bilingual children acquiring different NS languages.…”

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The (in)consistent ergative marking in early Basque: L1 vs. child L2

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Chapter 5. Null and Overt Subjects in the Developing Grammars (L1 English/ L1 Spanish) of Two Bilingual Twins

Cited by 8 publications

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Overt subjects and copula omission in the Spanish and the English grammar of English–Spanish bilinguals: On the locus and directionality of interlinguistic influence

Overt subjects and copula omission in the Spanish and the English grammar of English–Spanish bilinguals: On the locus and directionality of interlinguistic influence

The Development of Subject Position in Dutch-Dominant Heritage Speakers of Spanish: From Age 9 to Adulthood

The (in)consistent ergative marking in early Basque: L1 vs. child L2

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