Sobre un cambio sintactico en el espanol canario: del indicativo al subjuntivo y condicional

Purpose: This study investigates heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands regarding their knowledge of Spanish mood. Previous research has demonstrated that heritage speakers of Spanish in the US have problems with mood, especially subjunctive mood and particularly in contexts where choice of mood is variable and depends on semantic and pragmatic factors. Moreover, heritage speakers are often reported to experience fewer problems with oral production tasks tapping into implicit knowledge than with judgment tasks targeting metalinguistic knowledge. This study aims to investigate whether these patterns can be confirmed for heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands. Methodology: In all, 17 heritage speakers from the Netherlands and 18 monolingual speakers of Spanish completed a contextualized elicited production task. Each item contained a context targeting either indicative or subjunctive mood. Below each context followed the beginning of a sentence which the participants were instructed to complete. Both obligatory and variable uses of mood were included. The results were compared to findings from a contextualized scalar acceptability judgment task described in an earlier study using the same conditions and the same participants. Data and analysis: All responses were coded as felicitous or infelicitous given the accompanying context and were analyzed using mixed effects modeling. The results demonstrate that the heritage speakers are less accurate in their choice of mood than monolingual speakers, particularly on subjunctive mood and in variable contexts. Furthermore, heritage speakers deviated more from the monolingual patterns in the production task than in the judgment task. Findings/conclusion: These results confirm several patterns attested for heritage speakers of Spanish in the US, namely the increased vulnerability of subjunctive mood and in contexts where mood is not obligatorily selected. However, in contrast to previous literature, this study reports better performance on a metalinguistic judgment task than on an oral production task. This finding is attributed to differences in societal circumstances between both heritage speaker populations. Implications of the research: This study confirms the heterogeneity of heritage speakers as a population and emphasizes the importance of taking societal circumstances into consideration.

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“… 5. But see e.g. Molina, 2008 and Serrano, 1995; for regional variation w.r.t. mood in other contexts. …”

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Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Linguistic patterns in the judgment and production of mood

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Sleeman

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…No fue sino hasta las investigaciones de Lavandera (1984) y Silva-Corvalán (1989) que el subjuntivo se comenzó a estudiar como una variable sociolingüística. La variación del subjuntivo, que consiste en que puede alternar con el modo indicativo con cambios de significado como en "Entiendo que lo has/hayas perdonado" (Bosque 2012: 381), y, sobre todo, en que puede alternar en variación libre como en "Un buen amigo es alguien que se preocupa/preocupe por uno en todo momento", se ha visto afectada según la región (ver De Mello 1995a, 1995b, y 1996, según la generación (ver Lavandera 1984, Serrano 1995, Silva-Corvalán y Enrique-Arias 2001, y Lastra 2012) y, en menor medida, según el género y el nivel educativo (ver Serrano 1995, Lavandera 1984y Lastra 2012. Por lo tanto, el estudio del subjuntivo es relativamente nuevo al campo sociolingüístico, y aún falta profundizar en el análisis de los factores (internos o externos, como los factores sociales mencionados) que influyen en su variación.…”

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La selección modal del subjuntivo/indicativo en el Corpus sociolingüístico Preseea-Medellín

Koenig

2016

Boletín de Filología

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Morphosyntactic Variation in Spain

Serrano

2011

The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

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Sobre un cambio sintactico en el espanol canario: del indicativo al subjuntivo y condicional

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Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Linguistic patterns in the judgment and production of mood

Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Linguistic patterns in the judgment and production of mood

La selección modal del subjuntivo/indicativo en el Corpus sociolingüístico Preseea-Medellín

Morphosyntactic Variation in Spain

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