Past tense verb forms, discourse context and input features in bilingual and monolingual acquisition of Basque and Spanish

Almgren, Margareta; Idiazabal, Itziar

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“…Later, the present stabilizes as the most frequent tense in the spoken narratives of both older children and adults (González, 1980;Maéz, 1981;Bybee, 1985;Kvaal, Shipstead-Cox, Nevitt, Hodson, and Launer, 1988;Sebastián and Slobin, 1994;Montrul, 2004). Consistent with the claim that adult distributional discourse frequencies critically impact on verb form acquisition (Almgren and Idiazabal, 2001;Theakston, Lieven, and Tomasello, 2003; see also Harley, 2008), the ubiquitous presence of the present tense in the routine adult conversation in which Spanish-speaking children develop appears to provide the daily input to reinforce the prominent use and early acquisition of this tense in Spanish.…”

Section: Tense and Discourse Characteristics Of Spanish Verbssupporting

confidence: 61%

“…Other factors may be participating in the over-reliance of frequent forms by speakers with expressive limitations. Just as semantic basicness, habitual input patterns, communicative intent and word length may be critical acquisitional determinants that facilitate the use of certain linguistic elements in the early, rudimentary expressions of monolingual and bilingual children (Slobin, 1997;Almgren and Idiazabal, 2001;Ellis, 2002). Similar factors, including semantic transparency, repeated communicative use and simple syllabic structures, have been associated with the ease of expressive deployment in adult monolinguals and bilinguals with aphasia and adult bilinguals experiencing L1 loss who, like children acquiring language, produce morphologically simple utterances (Silva-Corvalán, 1991;Centeno, 2007Centeno, , 2011Centeno and Cairns, 2010).…”

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“…Among the various sentential meanings conveyed by verbs (i.e. tense, aspect, mood), verbal tense provides crucial temporal specification to anchor the actions communicated in discursive narratives in a particular point in time (Silva-Corvalán, 1983;Almgren and Idiazabal, 2001). Finally, Spanish verbs are useful to study the effects of frequency of occurrence of verb tense in spoken discourse because the multiple tenses of the richly inflected Spanish verb system are subject to varying frequency levels in conversational discourse (Silva-Corvalán, 1983.…”

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A preliminary comparison of verb tense production in Spanish speakers with expressive restrictions

Centeno

Anderson

2011

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Spoken verb tense use in three groups of Spanish speakers with expressive limitations, namely, children with specific language impairment, bilingual children with first language (L1) (Spanish) attrition and adults with agrammatism, was compared in order to examine the possible impact of conversational tense frequency on expressive production. Based on the notion that frequent language forms in typical discourse are preferred in contexts of expressive restrictions, we predicted that tenses with high spoken occurrence will be favoured by individuals in our expressively limited groups. The incidence of tense use by the participants was assessed in oral narratives and/or a sentence repetition task. Consistent with our prediction, the most frequent verb tenses in conversational Spanish--the present, followed by the preterite--were preferred by the participants thus supporting the proposal that a socio-cognitive factor linking discursive frequency to verb retrieval may be operating in tense preference in situations of expressive stress.

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Section: Tense and Discourse Characteristics Of Spanish Verbssupporting

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A preliminary comparison of verb tense production in Spanish speakers with expressive restrictions

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Anderson

2011

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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“…Only about one-third of the children in any language group (see Table 2: three English monolinguals, five French monolinguals and four bilinguals in each language) showed evidence of shifting tenses for particular functions. The bilinguals did not show greater skill (or worse skill) at shifting tense to highlight important events than the monolinguals (see also Almgren & Idiazabal (2001) for a similar observation in a different context with younger bilinguals).…”

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French–English bilingual children’s tense use and shift in narration

Hoang

Nicoladis

Smithson

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International Journal of Bilingualism

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Bilingual children sometimes show delays relative to monolinguals on language tasks. In the present studies, we explored whether French–English bilinguals’ tense use and shift would show a developmental lag in the context of narration. In Study 1, we showed that both French and English monolinguals showed age-related changes in tense use, with preschoolers preferring the past and adults the present. A developmental lag among bilingual children could therefore take the form of prolonged use of the past tense through middle childhood. In Study 2, we observed tense use in the narratives of French–English bilingual children (8–10 years), as well as French and English monolinguals from the same age group. The bilinguals tended to use more present tense than the monolinguals. In qualitative analyses, bilinguals also used a multitude of expressive strategies, such as exclamations, repetitions and onomatopoeia, that made the stories more vivid. Taken together these results suggest that French–English bilinguals do not present developmental differences from monolinguals in tense use. Instead, they adopt an imagistic narrative style that differs from the monolinguals in multiple ways, including a greater use of the present tense. The adoption of this style might be linked to both bilingualism and a cultural preference among French–English bilinguals.

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“…His first hypothesis was that the reason might be that this city was the only one (within his sample), in which Spanish was in contact with another language, Basque. He discarded this hypothesis later since in Basque the contexts where PP and Preterite are used are similar to those of Peninsular Spanish (see Almgren & Idiazabal 2001). In fact, the responses of people that spoke Basque as their first language did not significantly differ from those that spoke Spanish as their first language or those of Spanish monolinguals.…”

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A Case of Grammaticalization in the Use of the Perfect for the Preterite in Bilbao Spanish

Burgo

2010

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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Research into the use of the Present Perfect in various Romance languages often finds that the Present Perfect is taking over functions previously accomplished through the Preterite. This is also the case in Peninsular Spanish. A key constraint on the alternation of the Present Perfect and the Preterite involves the time-frame distinction of "today" versus "before-today". Among the various dialects of Spanish spoken in Spain,the regional dialect of Bilbao has been identified as having the highest percentage of "today" Present Perfects. Nonetheless, no community-based study of this dialect has been carried out. This study reports the results of a variationist study of the increasing use of the Present Perfect instead of Preterite in the city of Bilbao, Spain, based on 49 sociolinguistic interviews. Twenty factor groups involving linguistic constraints were analyzed. The findings support the findings of previous research except for the case of telicity, polarity and clause type that were not found to be significant in previous research. In addition, the findings provide new evidence of the significance of the following factors in a multi-variate analysis of the alternation of the Present Perfect and the Preterite: mood, the following verb's mood, the following verb's tense and narratives.

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Past tense verb forms, discourse context and input features in bilingual and monolingual acquisition of Basque and Spanish

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A preliminary comparison of verb tense production in Spanish speakers with expressive restrictions

A preliminary comparison of verb tense production in Spanish speakers with expressive restrictions

French–English bilingual children’s tense use and shift in narration

A Case of Grammaticalization in the Use of the Perfect for the Preterite in Bilbao Spanish

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