Multidisciplinary approaches to bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world / edited by Kate Bellamy [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bellamy, Kate, editor.

Series:

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ; Volume 13.

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2213-3887 ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Iberian Peninsula.

Languages in contact.

Languages in contact--Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer a glimpse of the diversity of bilingualism present in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, shedding light on the sheer variety of speaker communities, language pairings (e.g., Spanish-English, Spanish-Basque, Spanish-Dutch, Portuguese-Spanish-English, Portuguese-English, Spanish-K’ichee Maya, and Spanish-Ixcatec) and speaker types (e.g., simultaneous bilinguals, and early and late sequential bilinguals). The diversity present in this collection of papers, both in empirical coverage and methodological and theoretical approaches, will be of interest to a wide range of students and researchers in bilingualism and Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics.

Contents:

Intro

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction: Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world

Contents of the Volume

Chapter summaries

References

Chapter 2. L1 effects as manifestations of individual differences in the L2 acquisition of the Spanish tense-aspect-system

1. Introduction

2. Linguistic background

2.1 Generalities

2.2 Spanish

2.3 Other Romance systems

2.4 German

3. State of the art and previous studies on tense-aspect acquisition

3.1 Overview

3.2 Research questions and predictions

4. Methodology

4.1 Participants

4.2 Linguistic tasks

5. Results

5.1 Grammaticality judgment task

5.2 Production tasks

6. Discussion and general conclusions

Chapter 3. The Typological Primacy Model and bilingual types: Transfer differences between Spanish/English bilinguals in L3 Portuguese acquisition

2. Mood in Spanish and Portuguese

2.1 The subjunctive mood

2.2 Acquisition of mood distinctions in Spanish

3. The study

3.1 Research questions

3.2 Participants

3.3 Tasks

3.4 Procedure

3.5 Hypotheses

4. Results

4.1 Spanish proficiency pretest

4.2 Preference/Grammaticality Judgment (P/GJ) tasks

5. Discussion, limitations and contributions

5.1 Discussion

5.2 Limitations

5.3 Contributions

Chapter 4. Knowledge of mood in internal and external interface contexts in Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands

2. Spanish mood

3. Previous research with mood in Spanish heritage speakers

4. Focus of the present study

5. Method

5.1 Participants

5.2 Tasks and procedure

5.3 Stimuli

6. Results

6.1 Group results.

6.2 Statistical analyses

6.3 Native speakers' variability

6.4 Heritage speakers' results

6.5 Native and heritage patterns

6.6 Individual results

6.7 Verb types within the external interface

7. Discussion

7.1 Alternative accounts

7.2 Limitations of the present study

8. Conclusion

Chapter 5. Null objects with and without bilingualism in the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking world

2. Null objects in monolingual varieties: ADOs in Brazilian and European Portuguese

2.1 Multivariate analysis of the BP and EP data

3. The effects of bilingualism and language dominance: The case of Basque Spanish

3.1 Analysis of the Basque Spanish data

3.2 The emergence of null objects across the language dominance continuum

4. Null objects: A cross-linguistic overview

5. Conclusion

Chapter 6. The Compounding Parameter and L2 acquisition

2. The Compounding Parameter

2.1 A cluster of five structures

2.2 The Compounding Parameter in L2

3. The Compounding Parameter in the acquisition of English by Brazilian learners

4. The Experiment

6. Discussion

Conclusions

Appendix 1

Instructions Marcelino (2007)

Distractors (2)

Chapter 7. Prosodic transfer among Spanish-K'ichee' bilinguals

2. Focus and focus marking

2.1 Focus marking in K'ichee'

2.2 Focus marking in Spanish

3. The present study

3.1 Participants

3.2 Methodology

4.1 K'ichee' results

4.2 Spanish oxytones results

4.3 Spanish paroxytones results

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

Abbreviations

Appendix

Chapter 8. Spatial language and cognition among the last Ixcatec-Spanish bilinguals (Mexico)

1. Introduction.

2. Background on Ixcatec and the community of Santa María Ixcatlán

3. Study 1: The free-speech corpus

3.1 Goals and predictions

3.2 Material

3.3 Participants

3.4 Corpus annotation

3.5 Results

4. Study 2: The localization task

4.1 Goals and predictions

4.2 Participants

4.3 Procedure

4.4 Analysis

4.5 Results

5. Study 3: The nonverbal rotation task

5.1 Goals and predictions

5.2 Study 3, Task 1: Positioning the objects on a chair

5.3 Study 3, Task 2: Positioning the objects on the ground

6. Summary and discussion

Chapter 9. Experimentally inducing Spanish-English code-switching: A new conversation paradigm

1.1. Psycholinguistic approaches to code-switching

1.2 Referential communication tasks

2. Present study

2.1 Participants

2.2 Procedure

2.3 Transcription and coding

2.4 Results

3. General discussion

4. Conclusions

Chapter 10. The influence of structural distance in cross-linguistic transfer: A case study on Spanish-Basque bilingual aphasia

2. Spanish and Basque: Structural properties and predictions

2.1 Structural (dis)similarities across linguistic levels

2.2 Predictions for Spanish and Basque bilingual aphasia

3.2 Tasks

4.1 Lexical phonological level

4.2 Post-lexical phonological level

4.3 Morphosyntactic level

6. Conclusions

Chapter 11. Obliteration after Vocabulary Insertion

2. Theoretical framework and empirical questions

2.1 Syntactic assumptions

2.2 Distributed Morphology

2.3 Impoverishment and Obliteration

2.4 Negation in Basque and Spanish.

2.5 A Minimalist and DM model of a bilingual I-language

2.6 Predictions

3. Methods

3.2 Stimuli

3.3 Procedure

4.1 Results for monolingual structures

4.2 Results for code-switching structures

5. Proposal and analysis

Abbreviations used in glosses

Chapter 12. Bilingual production of relative clauses in languages with opposite head-complement directionality

2. Relative clauses in Spanish and Basque

2.1 Spanish relative clauses

2.2 Basque relative clauses

2.3 Ambiguous relative clauses in Spanish and Basque

2.4 Complexity of SRs and ORs

3.2 Materials

Chapter 13. The global and the local: Making comparisons possible

Portuguese-Spanish

The spread of Spanish and Portuguese as second languages

Spanish and Portuguese in contact with other languages

Dominant language-Heritage language

Different techniques for studying code switching

Future directions

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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