Eventive and stative passives and copula selection in Canadian and American Heritage Speaker Spanish

Valenzuela, Elena; Iverson, Michael; Rothman, Jason; Borg, Kristina; Cabo, Diego Pascual y; Pinto, Manuela

doi:10.1075/ihll.5.10val

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“…This difference was significant. Thus, consistent with previous studies (Bruhn de Garavito and Valenzuela 2008;Valenzuela et al 2015), L2 learners and HL learners found the verbal passive with era less acceptable than verbal passives with fue.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Our results may provide clues for why in previous studies (Valenzuela et al 2015;Bruhn de Garavito and Valenzuela 2008), L2 and HL learners showed low acceptability ratings for the verbal passive with era. Learners' misinterpretation of this structure may be rooted in a grammar that has yet to incorporate the verbal passive with the copula ser in the imperfect.…”

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confidence: 48%

“…Verbal passives with ser in the imperfect tense are not taught and are not frequent in the input; thus, testing the acceptance of verbal passives with fue, the canonical past tense, would indicate whether participants were familiar with the structure of verbal passives. Higher acceptability ratings on verbal passives with the preterite would indicate knowledge of the syntax of passives (see also Bruhn de Garavito and Valenzuela (2008) and Valenzuela et al (2015)). If participants do not accept the verbal passive with the copula in the preterite (fue), they are expected to be even less accepting of the passive with the copula in the imperfect (era).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Studies on adult early bilinguals show that this is the case. Valenzuela et al (2015) replicated Bruhn de Garavito and Valenzuela (2008) and administered the acceptability judgment task to twenty-two heritage speakers of Spanish described as having "near-native proficiency". Similar to L2 learners, heritage speakers judged verbal passives with fue as acceptable.…”

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Language Experience Affects Comprehension of Spanish Passive Clauses: A Study of Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners

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2020

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Heritage language (HL) learners of Spanish have shown better command with early acquired aspects of grammar than second language (L2) learners, mainly in oral tasks. This study investigates whether this advantage persists with passive clauses, structures acquired early but mastered during the school-age years, with literacy. We examined adjectival passives (La comida estaba servida, “Dinner was served”) with the copula estar in the imperfect, which refer to a description of a state or a final result; and verbal passives with the copula ser in the imperfect (La comida era servida. “Dinner was being served”), which refer to an ongoing or habitual action in the past. A grammaticality judgment task (GJT) testing knowledge of the copulas in different simple sentences and a picture-matching task (PMT) testing the comprehension of the two passive clauses revealed that HL learners’ knowledge of the copulas resembles that of literate monolingually raised native speakers more than that of L2 learners. HL learners are able to integrate their knowledge of the copulas to comprehend syntactically complex clauses, especially in the aural modality.

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Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affects brain structure and function

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Bialystok

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SignificanceThis study sheds new light on the neuroanatomical adaptations resulting from bilingual language exposure and use, providing crucial insights into untangling the variability of findings in the existing literature. Our results demonstrate that differences in bilingual language experiences confer a range of systematic outcomes in terms of brain/mind adaptations. In doing so, our findings strongly support a shift away from traditional designs with bilingual vs. monolingual comparisons and toward an approach of modeling the experiences within bilingualism that give rise to neurocognitive adaptations. Crucially, we maintain that experience-based factors should be accounted for in all future studies investigating the effects of bilingualism on the brain and cognition.

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Aspect in Heritage Greek: evidence from elicited production and online judgments

Paspali

Rizou

Αλεξιαδου

2021

Applied Psycholinguistics

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This study tests grammatical aspect in adult Heritage Speakers (HSs) of Greek in Germany (HSs-Germany) and the US (HSs-US), a topic which has not been investigated before for this language, exploring the role of the dominant language and the default value as an acquisition strategy. In an oral elicitation task (Experiment 1) targeting the production of aspectual marking in Greek, Greek monolinguals (MSs) and HSs-Germany exhibited ceiling performance, while HSs-US were significantly less accurate. Education in Greek reliably predicted their accuracy. In a speeded Grammaticality Judgment task (Experiment 2) targeting the comprehension of aspect in a Grammaticality x Aspect repeated measures design, similar results were obtained for the grammatical conditions as in Experiment 1. In ungrammatical conditions, accuracy on aspect was affected for all groups, and this was more evident for HSs. HSs-US were overall less accurate with the morphologically marked form (perfective). Decision Times (DTs) revealed that only MSs and HSs-Germany were sensitive to aspect violations exhibiting longer DTs. Education in Greek reliably predicted accuracy and DTs. The results are discussed within the realm of heritage languages, language contact, and aspect acquisition in Greek bilingual populations. Finally, certain novel verbal forms produced by HSs are also discussed.

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Eventive and stative passives and copula selection in Canadian and American Heritage Speaker Spanish

Cited by 3 publications

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Language Experience Affects Comprehension of Spanish Passive Clauses: A Study of Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners

Language Experience Affects Comprehension of Spanish Passive Clauses: A Study of Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners

Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affects brain structure and function

Aspect in Heritage Greek: evidence from elicited production and online judgments

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