The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings

The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings
Author: Tiffany Judy
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2015-02-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269084

By examining the acquisition of Spanish in combination with languages other than English (Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Nahuatl, Quechua, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish), this volume advances novel data pertinent to the field’s understanding of acquisition of Spanish in the XXI century. Its crosslinguistic nature invites us to reconsider major theoretical questions such as the role of L1 transfer, linguistic typology, and onset of acquisition from a fresh perspective, and to question the validity of the traditional parameter (re)setting perspective taken in SLA. Additionally, this volume underscores the necessity of providing accurate descriptions of the language pairings investigated, emphasizing the interconnection between linguistic and SLA theory, and pushing us to a more atomic view of the system in which features and feature bundles mapped onto lexical items comprise the skeleton of language. This volume is of great relevance for researchers and students of SLA alike.

The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax

The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax
Author: Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9401002916

Recent developments in linguistic theory, as well as the growing body of evidence from languages other than English, provide new opportunities for deeper explorations into how language is represented in the mind of learners. This collection of new empirical studies on the acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax by leading researchers in the field of language acquisition, specifically contributes to the characterization of the L1 / L2 connection in acquisition. Using L1 and L2 Spanish data from children and adults, the authors seek to address the central questions that have occupied developmental psycholinguists in the final decades of the previous century and that will no doubt continue engaging them into the present one.

Quechua Expressions of Stance and Deixis

Quechua Expressions of Stance and Deixis
Author: Marilyn Manley
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004290109

Quechua Expressions of Stance and Deixis explores the semantics and pragmatics of Southern Quechua and Ecuadorian Quichua expressions, considered as markers of stance and deixis. This volume is the first to study a broad range of stance/deictic phenomena in Peruvian and Bolivian Quechua and Ecuadorian Quichua in-depth, with examples that have been elicited as well as captured from natural discourse. Each chapter investigates these expressions through fieldwork and experimental studies, many employing original methodologies. As such, this work stands as an important contribution to the study of an endangered language.

Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World

Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World
Author: Jennifer Austin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-04-23
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521115531

An introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics including language contact, bilingual societies, code-switching and language choice.

Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism

Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism
Author: Liliana Sánchez
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027252944

This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to language change in a language contact situation, and links convergence, a common set of feature values for the same functional category in both languages to the activation of features related to the informational structure of the sentence. These mechanisms are illustrated in detail by the presence of overt determiners, canonical SVO word order and the absence of accusative marking in bilingual Quechua and by neutralization of case and gender distinctions in direct object pronouns as well as in the emergence of null pronouns with definite antecedents in bilingual Spanish.

Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition

Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition
Author: Joaquim Camps
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588110787

This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, representing the areas of syntax, semantics, their interfaces, and second language acquisition. The topics addressed include movement (both wh- and head-movement), control, issues of second language acquisition related to the Determiner Phrase, the effect of word order and syntactic simplification in second language acquisition, adverbials, syntactic constraints on access to lexical structure, a semantic characterization of the subjunctive in Spanish, and impersonal constructions and impersonal reflexive pronouns. The papers in this volume not only discuss issues related to most of the major Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian and Spanish) and a Portuguese Creole, but also include comparisons with languages from other families (Marathi, Bulgarian, Polish and Slovenian). This collection of papers illustrates the richness in the field of Romance linguistics and the value of cross-linguistic research and multi-modular approaches.

Child Acquisition of Quechua Morphosyntax

Child Acquisition of Quechua Morphosyntax
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 327
Release: 1998
Genre: Children
ISBN:

The analysis favors Strong Continuity: functional projections are available to children before they acquire full productivity of the corresponding morphology. Meaning is foremost in the development of verb morphology, with children seeking unique form-function correspondences. As children begin producing complex verbs, they tend initially to attach a small set of suffixes and their combinations to a wide variety of roots. Finally, the data suggest that children may initially assume that change-of-state verbs are basically transitive.

The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
Author: Kimberly L. Geeslin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1098
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1316800717

Written for both researchers and advanced students, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field of Spanish linguistics. Balancing different theoretical perspectives among expert scholars, it provides an in-depth examination of all sub-fields of research in Hispanic linguistics, with a focus on recent advances.