This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of Spanish object clitics by L1 English learners. Spanish clitics are analyzed as bundles of agreement and referential features morphologically marked for number and gender. We examine the relationship between morphology and syntax in L2 learners’ grammars in order to assess two current acquisition hypotheses: the Impaired Representation Hypothesis (IRH) and the Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (MSIH). Data from a production and a comprehension task suggest that learners have an unimpaired narrow syntax, despite apparent inflectional variability. We propose that absent or inaccurate morphology can be explained by a deficit in the mapping to PF. This supports a dissociation between syntactic representation and surface inflection.
2023. Path and rate of development in child heritage speakers: Evidence from Greek subject/object form and placement. International Journal of Bilingualism 27:5 ► pp. 634 ff.
2021. Corpus textuales de aprendices para investigar sobre la adquisición del español LE/L2. In e-Research y español LE/L2, ► pp. 138 ff.
Mayer, Elisabeth & Liliana Sánchez
2019. Feature variability in the bilingual-monolingual continuum: clitics in bilingual Quechua-Spanish, bilingual Shipibo-Spanish and in monolingual Limeño Spanish contact varieties. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22:7 ► pp. 883 ff.
Sessarego, Sandro
2019. Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular,
Perpiñán, Silvia
2018. On Convergence, Ongoing Language Change, and Crosslinguistic Influence in Direct Object Expression in Catalan–Spanish Bilingualism. Languages 3:2 ► pp. 14 ff.
Madeira, Ana
2016. Second Language Acquisition. In The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics, ► pp. 578 ff.
Cuza, Alejandro, Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux & Liliana Sánchez
2013. THE ROLE OF SEMANTIC TRANSFER IN CLITIC DROP AMONG SIMULTANEOUS AND SEQUENTIAL CHINESE-SPANISH BILINGUALS. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 35:1 ► pp. 93 ff.
Rothman, Jason & Diego Pascual y Cabo
2013. Generative Approaches to Spanish Second Language Acquisition. In The Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition, ► pp. 46 ff.
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