Processing Semantic And Grammatical Gender Agreement In L2 Spanish
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| Author | : Patricia Ann Atchley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 75 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
ABSTRACT: Learners reading times were compared across noun class (semantic gender or grammatical gender), gender (masculine or feminine) and grammaticality conditions. It was predicted that beginning and intermediate learners would recognize violations of semantic gender, but would not recognize violations of grammatical gender, and that they would default to a masculine form. Our results support this prediction. The findings are discussed in light of VanPatten's (2007) input processing theory, which states that learners will process meaningful grammatical forms before nonmeaningful grammatical forms, especially when that form lacks communicative value, as is the case with grammatical gender.
| Author | : Jessica Diebowski |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2021-04-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110703041 |
The comparative investigation of the acquisition of gender in Spanish by early and late bilinguals of different language combinations is highly debated and crucial as the phenomenon of gender involves grammatical features that differ in all three languages under investigation. Against this background, both early and late bilinguals face an arduous learning task which differs in complexity. Couched within a generative framework, the empirical study focuses on 257 participants with different levels of proficiency in Spanish ranging from low to advanced, and through a series of tests aims to discover which extra-linguistic and intra-linguistic factors act as triggers for non-native outcomes in adult heritage speakers and L2 learners. The observed morphological variability is argued not to stem from a representational (i.e. syntactic) deficit, but rather from a mapping problem in L2 learners and heritage speakers. Successful attainment in terms of gender is possible but dependent on the interplay between various extralinguistic and linguistic factors.
| Author | : Le Anne L. Spino-Seijas |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Electronic dissertations |
| ISBN | : 9780355215946 |
| Author | : Nicole Yvonne Yapor Wicha |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Uli H. Frauenfelder |
| Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9780262560399 |
Spoken Word Recognition covers the entire range of processes involved in recognizing spoken words - both in and out of context. It brings together a number of essays dealing with important theoretical questions raised by the study of spoken word recognition - among them, how do we understand fluent speech as efficiently and effortlessly as we do? What are the mental processes and representations involved when we recognize spoken words? How do these differ from those involved in reading written words? What information is stored in our mental lexicon and how is it structured? What do linguistic and computational theories tell us about these psychological processes and representations?The multidisciplinary presentation of work by phoneticians, linguists, psychologists, and computer scientists reflects the growing interest in spoken word recognition from a number of different perspectives. It is a natural consequence of the mediating role that lexical representations and processes play in language understanding, linking sound with meaning.Following the editors' introduction, the contributions and their authors are: Acoustic-Phonetic Representation in Word Recognition (David B. Pisoni and Paul A. Luce). Phonological Parsing and Lexical Retrieval (Kenneth W. Church). Parallel Processing in Spoken Word Recognition (William D. Marslen-Wilson). A Reader's View of Listening (Dianne C. Bradley and Kenneth I. Forster). Prosodic Structure and Spoken Word Recognition (Francois Grosjean and James Paul Gee). Structure in Auditory Word Recognition (Lyn Frazier). The Mental Representation of the Meaning of Words (P. N. Johnson-Laird). Context Effects in Lexical Processing (Michael K. Tanenhaus and Margery M. Lucas).Uli H. Frauenfelder is a researcher with the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, and Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler is a professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Spoken Word Recognition is in a series that is derived from special issues of Cognition: International Journal of Cognitive Science, edited by Jacques Mehler. A Bradford Book.
| Author | : Silvina Montrul |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027252975 |
This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative grammar: nominal and verbal inflectional morphology, subject and object pronouns, complex structures involving movement (topicalizations, questions, relative clauses), and aspects of verb meaning that have consequences for syntax. The book argues that Universal Grammar constrains all instances of language acquisition and that there is a fundamental continuity between monolingual, bilingual, child and adult early grammatical systems. While stressing their similarities with respect to linguistic representations and processes, the book also considers important differences between these three acquisition situations with respect to the outcome of acquisition. It is also shown that many linguistic properties of Spanish are acquired earlier than in English and other languages. This book is a must read for those interested in the acquisition of Spanish from different theoretical perspectives as well as those working on the acquisition of other languages in different contexts.
| Author | : Deborah Arteaga |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2019-09-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 178892536X |
The chapters in this volume, all written by experts in the field, present an array of new research on second language acquisition (SLA) that touches on several current theoretical debates in the field and present a rich range of new empirical data and a number of innovative findings. The studies address questions relating to ultimate attainment, first language transfer, universal properties of SLA, processing and second language (L2) grammar, and explore a number of grammatical features of the L2: tense, aspect, modality, specificity, definiteness, gender, number, anaphora. These themes are complemented by the study of pragmatic competence in sociocultural aspects of register use. The students investigated in the studies range from heritage speakers to naturalistic learners, to instructed learners and immigrants. Another distinctive feature of this book is the inclusion of pedagogical recommendations based on L2 research, making the book relevant for both SLA researchers and language teachers.
| Author | : Florencia Franceschina |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027252982 |
This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition. Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how a learner's first language and the age at which they acquire their second language may contribute to the L2 knowledge that they can ultimately attain. The empirical study focuses on a group of very advanced L2 speakers, and through a series of tests aims to discover what underpins their near mastery of grammatical gender and other grammatical properties. The book explores an account of persistent selective divergence based on the idea that child and adult learners are fundamentally similar, except that in adults the L1 plays the role of a fairly rigid filter of the linguistic input. The impossibility of representing the new target language other than by using the building blocks of the previously established L1 is argued to be the main reason why near but not totally native like language representations are formed and become established in adult L2 learners.
| 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.
| Author | : Roberto Heredia |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 391 |
| Release | : 2002-07-25 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0080500099 |
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