Psycholinguistic Evidence for Incipient Language Change in Mexican Spanish: The Extension of Differential Object Marking

Regulez, Begoña Arechabaleta; Montrul, Silvina

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“…However, for the L2 only 38.74% of the animate objects were marked and 61.26% were unmarked. Unlike native speakers of Mexican Spanish who have been shown to extend DOM to inanimate objects (Arechabaleta-Regulez and Montrul, 2021), these bilingual participants did not show much extension of DOM to inanimate objects. While heritage speakers did not produce any cases of inanimate objects with DOM extension, the L2 learners did so in 5 occasions, as in (7c).…”

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Production, acceptability, and online comprehension of Spanish differential object marking by heritage speakers and L2 learners

Regulez

Montrul

2023

Front. Psychol.

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We analyzed the production, acceptability and online comprehension of Spanish differential object marking (DOM) by two groups of bilingual speakers living in the U.S.: heritage speakers and L2 learners. DOM is the overt marking of direct objects that are higher on the animacy and referentiality scales, such as animate and specific objects in Spanish, marked by the preposition a (Juan ve a María ‘Juan sees DOM María’). Previous studies have reported variability and high omission rates of obligatory DOM in bilingual situations where Spanish is in contact with a non-DOM language.Our study combined different methodologies to tap knowledge of DOM in the two groups. The results showed that heritage speakers and L2 learners (1) exhibited variability with DOM in production (in two oral tasks), comprehension (in an acceptability judgement task), and processing (in an eye-tracking reading task); (2) can integrate DOM into their production, judgments and processing, but they do so inconsistently, and (3) type of task and type of sentence each have an effect on speakers’ use of DOM.

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“…FIGURE 2Sample of items used in the oral elicitation task: (A) shows the picture used for the verb saludar 'to greet'; (B) shows the picture used for the verb escuchar 'to listen' [reproduced with permission from Arechabaleta-Regulez andMontrul (2021)]. …”

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Production, acceptability, and online comprehension of Spanish differential object marking by heritage speakers and L2 learners

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Montrul

2023

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“…The reading task with eye-tracking aimed to analyze participants' processing mechanisms to test whether DOM omission is part of their competence. It was hypothesized that heritage speakers would show little sensitivity to unmarked animate objects, at least with sentences following a canonical word order (Jegerski, , 2018Arechabaleta-Regulez, 2016;Jegerski and Sekerina, 2019). Moreover, heritage speakers and L2 learners were expected to show sensitivity to DOM with inanimate objects regardless of the word order (Jegerski, 2018).…”

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“…¿Qué usó el actor? Based on previous studies, heritage speakers and L2 learners were expected to show no sensitivity to DOM with animate objects with canonical word order sentences (Arechabaleta-Regulez, 2016;Jegerski, 2018;Jegerski and Sekerina, 2019). Therefore, participants were expected to produce comparable reading times when reading sentences with marked animate objects than with sentences with DOM omission.…”

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The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

2024

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“…Instructional materials in Valencian schools may diverge from the linguistic practices of native speakers, potentially influencing the usage of DOM among Valencian speakers. The present study includes Valencian-Spanish bilingual speakers and utilizes a production task-a methodology employed in previous studies on DOM (Arechabaleta Regulez and Montrul 2021;Montrul and Sánchez-Walker 2013)-to assess their productive knowledge.…”

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The Differential Object Marker in Valencian: Another Failure of Prescriptivism

Iranzo

2024

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A rich tradition of studies on languages with differential object marking (DOM) is available in the literature. Languages like Spanish or Romanian are frequently cited in discussions about DOM, but Valencian is seldom mentioned in this context. This oversight may stem from a lack of familiarity with the Valencian language and an over-reliance on guidelines set by textbooks and official prescriptive grammars—in the case of Valencian, by the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua—which drafts the linguistic regulations of the Valencian language. This study aimed to analyze the usage of the DOM in Valencian and explore the social variables that help explain this usage (sex, age, and education). To achieve this goal, Spanish–Valencian bilingual participants completed an oral production task to evaluate their use of DOM in Valencian. Statistical analysis revealed that Valencian is a DOM language that marks direct objects that refer to humans and definite entities. These results point to the linguistic ideologies in Valencia that attempt to artificially create linguistic differentiation between Valencian and Spanish, the co-official languages in the region. Furthermore, the results emphasize the limitations of top-down prescriptive policies in modifying vernacular linguistic varieties.

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Psycholinguistic Evidence for Incipient Language Change in Mexican Spanish: The Extension of Differential Object Marking

Cited by 5 publications

References 46 publications

Production, acceptability, and online comprehension of Spanish differential object marking by heritage speakers and L2 learners

Production, acceptability, and online comprehension of Spanish differential object marking by heritage speakers and L2 learners

The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

The Differential Object Marker in Valencian: Another Failure of Prescriptivism

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