Gender Acquisition In Spanish

Author : Jessica Diebowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110703047

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Gender Acquisition in Spanish by Jessica Diebowski Pdf

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 : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258397

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The Acquisition of Gender by Dalila Ayoun Pdf

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives. Most languages display semantic and/or formal gender systems with various degrees of opacity and complexity, and even closely related languages present distinct differences, creating difficulties for second language learners. The first three chapters of this volume present critical reviews in three different areas – gender assignment in mixed noun phrases, subtle gentle biases and the gender acquisition in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish – while the next six chapters present new empirical evidence in the acquisition of gender by bilingual children, adult L2/L3 learners and heritage speakers of various languages such as Italian, German, Dutch or Mandarin-Italian.

Author : Gilda Socarras
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441134080

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First Language Acquisition in Spanish by Gilda Socarras Pdf

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Author : Kimberly L. Geeslin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119457053

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The Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition by Kimberly L. Geeslin Pdf

Bringing together a comprehensive collection of newly-commissioned articles, this Handbook covers the most recent developments across a range of sub-fields relevant to the study of second language Spanish. Provides a unique and much-needed collection of new research in this subject, compiled and written by experts in the field Offers a critical account of the most current, ground-breaking developments across key fields, each of which has seen innovative empirical research in the past decade Covers a broad range of issues including current theoretical approaches, alongside a variety of entries within such areas as the sound system, morphosyntax, individual and social factors, and instructed language learning Presents a variety of methodological approaches spanning the active areas of research in language acquisition

Author : Irma V. Alarcón
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Spanish language
ISBN : 3895863505

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The Second Language Acquisition of Spanish Gender Agreement by Irma V. Alarcón Pdf

Author : Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux,Juana Muñoz Liceras
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402009747

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The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux,Juana Muñoz Liceras Pdf

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 : Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro,Suzanne Flynn,Jason Rothman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273031

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Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood by Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro,Suzanne Flynn,Jason Rothman Pdf

In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism, and the present volume’s authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition from L3/Ln acquisition is essential. From linguistic, sociological, psychological, educational and cognitive viewpoints, it has become increasingly apparent that the study of L3/Ln acquisition can provide new evidence to help resolve ongoing debates in these areas of study. This volume uniquely provides a wide-ranging overview of current trends in the study of adult additive multilingualism from formal, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives, adding new insights into adult multilingual epistemology. This collection includes critical reviews of L3/Ln morphosyntax, phonology, and the lexicon, as well as individual studies with unique language pairings including Romance, Germanic, Slavic, and Asian languages.

Author : Elena Babatsouli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247025

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Multilingual Acquisition and Learning by Elena Babatsouli Pdf

The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis. Multilingualism is inclusively used to refer to sociolinguistic diversity and pluralism. Whether speech, writing, gesture, or body movement, language is a conduit that carries meaning within a complex, fluid, and context-dependent framework that engages different aspects of the individual, the communicative interaction, communicative acts, and social parameters. Continually modified over the years to better represent its multidisciplinary scope, the sociobiological notion of language has found steady and productive ground within major theoretical frameworks, which, individually or holistically, contribute to a rounded understanding of language acquisition, learning, and use by exploring both system-internal and system-external factors and their interaction. Summoning the work of leading academics, the volume outlines the changing dynamics of multilingualism in children and adults internationally with the latest advances and under-represented coverage that highlight the ecosystemic nature of multilingual acquisition, learning, and use.

Author : Laura Domíguez,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443821834

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New Directions in Language Acquisition by Laura Domíguez,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Pdf

This volume presents sixteen new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages by both well-established researchers and vital new contributors to the field. Under a generative umbrella, the articles in this collection investigate the acquisition of French, Romanian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese across different contexts including first language acquisition, bilingual acquisition, specifically impaired first language acquisition, child L2 acquisition, second language acquisition, as well as first language attrition. This volume advances our understanding of how languages are acquired and how the study of Romance languages contributes to clarifying challenging open questions on the acquisition of key functional categories and other related phenomena. In particular, the articles included assess complexity as a relevant factor shaping children’s acquisition of syntactic and phonological structures, they refine crucial theoretical constructs such as parameter setting and language transfer, and propose language change as another crucial factor affecting the process of language acquisition and attrition.

Author : Fatih Bayram,Maki Kubota,Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832546932

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The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements by Fatih Bayram,Maki Kubota,Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares Pdf

Over the past three decades studies investigating heritage speaker (HS) linguistic competencies have shown, time and again that, despite being L1 or 2L1 native speakers of their home language(s), HS outcomes display variation across a wide spectrum of differences as compared to each other, other types of bilinguals as well as their monolingual peers. Studies have traditionally used—mostly behavioral—methodologies rooted in adjacent established fields (e.g., L1 acquisition, adult L2 acquisition) offering, in addition to documenting and describing HS performance, important insights for linguistic theory and challenges related to (home/minority) language maintenance, contact, policy and more. A birds-eye view makes it clear that the methodologies one uses to tap into HSs’ linguistic knowledge areas, if not more, are important than the phenomena under investigation, especially in light of how their unique experiences with their heritage and other languages are present across a continuum.

Author : Tania Ionin,Silvina Montrul,Roumyana Slabakova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003823506

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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics by Tania Ionin,Silvina Montrul,Roumyana Slabakova Pdf

This handbook provides innovative and comprehensive coverage of research on the second language acquisition (SLA) of morphosyntax, semantics, and the interface between the two. Organized by grammatical topic, the chapters are written by experts from formal and functional perspectives in the SLA of morphosyntax and semantics, providing in-depth yet accessible coverage of these areas. All chapters highlight the theoretical underpinnings of much work in SLA and their links to theoretical syntax and semantics; making comparisons to other populations, including child language acquirers, bilinguals, and heritage speakers (links to first language acquisition and bilingualism); dedicating a portion of each chapter to the research methods used to investigate the linguistic phenomenon in question (links to psycholinguistics and experimental linguistics); and, where relevant, including intervention studies on the phenomenon in question (links to applied linguistics). The volume will be indispensable to SLA researchers and students who work on any aspect of the SLA of morphosyntax or semantics. With its coverage of a variety of methodologies and comparisons to other populations (such as child language acquirers, early bilinguals, heritage speakers, and monolingual adults), the handbook is expected to also be of much interest to linguists who work in psycholinguistics, first language acquisition, and bilingualism.

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297662

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Gender Across Languages by Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann Pdf

This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume (and the previous two volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors. The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material.Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh.

Author : Silvina A. Montrul
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294906

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The Acquisition of Spanish by Silvina A. Montrul Pdf

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 : Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 3110170264

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Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, and Gender by Aneta Pavlenko Pdf

Annotation The goal of this collection of essays is to transcend the Anglocentric, monolingual bias which has characterized much of the field of language and gender studies by creating a new field combining multilingualism, second language learning (SLL) and gender. The focus of the new field is the relationship between gender, ideology, power, and linguistic practices in bi- and multilingual communities. The 11 contributing authors include scholars from the fields of linguistics, language teaching and acquisition, teacher education, communication, and sociology and equity studies, from the UK, the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Florencia Franceschina
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293985

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Fossilized Second Language Grammars by Florencia Franceschina Pdf

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.