Morphological variation in Spanish

Fábregas, Antonio; Gallego, Ángel J.

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.09.007

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“…GRAMMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF temporality show morphological variability among and within languages, and also in the interlanguage of second language (L2) learners (Binnick, 2012;Fábregas & Gallego, 2014). Finding similarities and differences between languages, and also between the use of native speakers and learners of second languages, is theoretically relevant to explain linguistic variation, and subsequently useful to further understand acquisition processes and predict difficulties which learners will go through.…”

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Inherent Aspect and L1 Transfer in the L2 Acquisition of Spanish Grammatical Aspect

González

Hernández

2018

The Modern Language Journal

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The aim of this article is to show that the use of Spanish grammatical aspect is biased by inherent aspect depending on the learner's first language (L1). It considers both the Lexical Aspect Hypothesis (LAH; Andersen, 1986, and his followers) and the L1 Transfer Hypothesis (Izquierdo & Collins, 2008; McManus, 2015), and it compares the use of Spanish past tenses by L1 Dutch and L1 English learners at first stages of acquisition. Differences in grammatical aspect in both L1 and the second language (L2) predict that learners will have difficulties acquiring grammatical differences such as the contrast between the Preterit and the Imperfect. Recent studies claim that not all learners are biased by the traditional Vendlerian lexical aspect typology (Domínguez et al., 2013; González, 2013), which may mean that refinement of the LAH is necessary. For our study, L1 English and Dutch learners of Spanish performed the same written production task, which involved the retelling of a story after watching a muted video. The results, based on an approximate binomial distribution analysis, show that the use of both the Preterit and the Imperfect by English‐speaking learners is biased by dynamicity contrasts. Furthermore, their overuse of Preterit to complete the written task shows L1 transfer from the English past tense, which can be uttered in perfective and imperfective contexts. On the other hand, the results of L1 Dutch speakers show that the use of Spanish grammatical aspect is biased by the terminative‐durative classification, and that they prefer the Present Perfect in perfective contexts, also showing L1 transfer.

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Inherent Aspect and L1 Transfer in the L2 Acquisition of Spanish Grammatical Aspect

González

Hernández

2018

The Modern Language Journal

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“…Grammatical representations of temporality show morphological variability among and within languages (Binnick, 2012;Fábregas & Gallego, 2014). As already described in section 2.1, in Spanish, as well as in other Romance languages, the grammatical representation of temporality also includes reference to aspectual distinctions (perfective versus imperfective meanings).…”

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Target Variation as a Contributing Factor in TAML2 Production

González¹,

Kleinherenbrink²

2021

Círc. lingüíst. apl. comun.

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This study aims to clarify whether variation in the target language can influence its acquisition. More specifically, this study describes the acquisition of Spanish as a second language (L2) by examining the learning process based on (a) the first language (L1) of the learner and (b) which Spanish dialect is being learnt (the target). The phenomenon under scrutiny is the use of past tenses in the L2, as it has been proven to adequately measure the competence of the learner. Data from two L2 at-home-classroom student groups in the Netherlands, divided by either a European or Latin American oriented study program, has been collected. The task that they have made is a written narrative that elicits past verb forms in hodiernal and prehodiernal contexts. Our data shows a clear distinction in the preference of the past tense forms that each of the groups has, that can only be explained by looking at the Spanish variety which both program offers

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Datives, data and dialect syntax in American English

Wood

Zanuttini

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In this paper, we present a detailed case study of a number of dative constructions that vary across speakers of American English. We show how geographical maps of acceptability judgments can be used to shed light on the syntactic structures underlying those judgments. Those structures can then be used to refine our understanding of syntax more generally, in this case relating to the features of argument-introducing heads. We provide novel support for the low applicative analysis of the Personal Dative construction, on the grounds that this analysis falls in line with a general, somewhat surprising conclusion about Southern American English: that ApplP may occur not just as the complement of a verb, but also as the subject of a small clause or the complement of a preposition. We propose that this wider distribution follows from a featural difference between ApplP in Northern and Southern varieties: that low ApplP in Southern American English is not categorially distinct from ordinary DPs. We then show that even though Personal Datives have spread outside of the South, they have not taken this basic structure with them. Instead, Northern varieties adopting the Personal Dative have made a minimal modification to their existing Appl heads, to accommodate the Personal Dative without adopting the full range of dative constructions found in the South.

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Morphological variation in Spanish

Cited by 3 publications

References 81 publications

Inherent Aspect and L1 Transfer in the L2 Acquisition of Spanish Grammatical Aspect

Inherent Aspect and L1 Transfer in the L2 Acquisition of Spanish Grammatical Aspect

Target Variation as a Contributing Factor in TAML2 Production

Datives, data and dialect syntax in American English

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