Language acquisition beyond parameters : studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras / edited by Anahi Alba de la Fuente, Elena Valenzuela, Cristina Martinez-Sanz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuente, Anahí Alba de la, editor.

Valenzuela, Elena, editor.

Martínez-Sanz, Cristina, editor.

Series:

Studies in bilingualism ; Volume 51.

Studies in Bilingualism (SiBil), 0928-1533 ; Volume 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Acquisition.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Study and teaching--English speakers.

Second language acquisition.

Interlanguage (Language learning).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [The Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

Summary:

The chapters in this volume take different approaches to the exploration of language acquisition processes in various populations (monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition, L2 acquisition) and address issues in syntax, morphology, pragmatics, language processing and interface phenomena. This volume is a tribute to Juana M. Liceras’ fundamental and enduring contribution to the field of Spanish Second Language Acquisition (SLA). All the chapters in the volume are linked to or inspired by Juana’s extensive body of work, and, like Juana’s research, they all stand at the crossroads of formal and experimental linguistics. Together, the studies presented in this volume are a reflection of Juana’s impact both as a mentor and as a collaborative researcher while at the same time showcasing current trends and new directions in the field of generative SLA.

Contents:

Intro

Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgements

L2 acquisition

1. Parameters and beyond

2. Features and crossroads L1/L2

3. Word order and complex structures

4. Monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition

References

Part 1. Parameters and beyond

Pro-drop then and now

1. Introduction

2. Phase I: The parameter

2.1 The null subject parameter

2.2 Research on the null subject parameter in L2

3. Phase II: Morphological licensing of null subjects

3.1 Morphological Uniformity

3.2 Features

3.3 Null subjects and root infinitives

4. Phase III: Null subjects and discourse

5. Conclusion

Reference comprehension and production in bilingual Spanish

2. Pronominal dependencies in discourse

2.1 Pronoun reference in Spanish and Moroccan Arabic

2.2 The acquisition of pronoun reference

3. Goals and research questions

4. Experiment 1: Production data

4.1 Participants

4.2 Procedure

4.3 Coding criteria

4.4 Results

5. Experiment 2: Interpretation data

5.1 Participants

5.2 Procedure and materials

5.3 Results

6. Discussion and conclusions

Acknowledgements

Part 2. Features and crossroads L1/L2

When masculine as default supercedes L1 transfer

2. Grammatical gender in Spanish and German

3. Previous research

3.1 Representation of gender systems in the bilingual mental lexicon

3.2 L1 transfer in L2 gender

3.3 Masculine as default in L2

3.4 Gender use in code-switched DPs

4. Method

4.2 Design

4.3 Materials

4.4 Procedure

5. Results

5.1 Data

5.2 General results

5.3 Error analysis

5.4 Accuracy rates

5.5 Reaction times (RTs)

6. Discussion.

7. Conclusion

L2 knowledge of gender and number agreement in Spanish noun ellipsis

2. Background: The acquisition of gender and functional features

3. Noun ellipsis in Spanish

4. Methodology

4.2 Tasks

4.2.1 Production task

4.2.2 Grammaticality judgment task

5.1 Production task

5.2 Grammaticality judgment task

5.3 Individual Results

Not just algunos, but indeed unos L2ers can acquire scalar implicatures in L2 Spanish

2. (Scalar) implicatures

2.1 Spanish plural indefinites with contrasting properties: Algunos and unos

3. Acquisition of scalar implicatures

3.1 Child monolinguals

3.2 Adult L2 Acquisition

4. The present study

4.1 Research questions and hypotheses

4.2 Methodology

4.2.1 Participants

4.2.2 Materials

5.1 Statistical models

6. Discussion

7. Conclusion

Part 3. Word order and complex structures

Comprehension of subject and object relative clauses by second language learners of Spanish

1.1 Relative clauses in English and Spanish

2. Method

2.1 Participants

2.2 Tasks

2.2.1 Aural Grammaticality Judgment Task (GJT)

2.2.2 Aural Picture Matching Task (PMT)

3. Results

3.1 GJT

3.2 Picture matching task

4. Discussion

Appendices

On the production of differential object marking and wh-question formation in native and non-native Spanish

2. The syntax of DOM and interrogative inversion in Spanish and English

2.1 Differential object marking

2.2 Subject-inversion in wh-questions

3. The bilingual acquisition of DOM and subject-verb inversion in Spanish

3.1 Differential object marking.

3.2 Subject-verb inversion in Spanish interrogatives

3.3 Research questions and hypotheses

4. The study

4.1 The participants

4.2 Methods

4.2.1 Direct object marking

4.2.2 Subject-verb inversion

5. Results and discussion

5.1 Differential object marking

5.2 Subject-verb inversion

6. Conclusions

Part 4. Monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition

In search of the perfect tense

2. The Spanish present perfect

2.1 What is it?

2.2 How does it vary?

3. Acquisition of the present perfect

4. Study

4.1 Questions

4.2 Participants

4.3 Methods

4.4.1 Experiment 1: Sentence repair task

4.4.2 Experiment 2: Preference-based elicitation task

4.4.3 Are children's responses influenced by lexical class?

Appendix A. Contexts studied in both the elicited production (sentence repair) and the preference-based elicitation tasks.

The acquisition of grammatical gender in L1 bilingual Spanish

2. Spanish grammatical gender

2.1 The structure of gender: Semantics, morphology, phonology and syntax

2.2 A model of gender assignment and gender concord in the DP

2.3 Gender internalized system

3. The acquisition of grammatical gender

4. Research questions and hypotheses

5. Methodology

5.2 Data selection

5.3 Data codification

5.4 Data analysis and discussion21

5.4.1 Overview of the data and adult-like cases

5.4.2 The three dimensions of gender and non-adult-like cases

5.4.3 Developmental approach

Applying computing innovations to bilingual corpus analysis

2. Triggered codeswitching

3. The Miami, Patagonia, and 'Siarad' corpora

3.1 Participants

3.2 Transcription.

4. Automatic glossing

5. Data preparation

6. Data analysis and results

6.1 Data analysis

6.2 Results

7. Tips and tricks for processing corpus data

8. Conclusions

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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