Understanding Interfaces: Second language acquisition and first language attrition of Spanish subject realization and word order variation
Laura Domínguez
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 55] 2013. xx, 267 pp.
Laura Domínguez
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura Domínguez plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 Feature Reassembly is concerned with syntax, but its main goal is to account for the (second) language acquisition process Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 48–52 | Commentary
2019 A ‘mixed methods’ approach for investigating aspect in a second language: Evidence from the SPLLOC project Current Visions of TAML2: Tense, Aspect and Modality in Second Languages, González, Paz and Tim Diaubalick (eds.), pp. 41–66 | Article
A leading hypothesis in the study of the L2 acquisition of aspect-related verbal morphemes is the Lexical Aspect Hypothesis (LAH) (Andersen, 1989, 1991; Andersen & Shirai, 1994) which claims that learners’ use of these forms is determined by the lexical properties of events. Reviews of major… read more
2018 Chapter 7. Testing the predictions of the Scalpel Model in L3/Ln acquisition: The acquisition of null and overt subjects in L3 Chinese Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova, Cho, Jacee, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya (eds.), pp. 181–202 | Chapter
The Scalpel Model (SM) (Slabakova, 2017) argues that neither the L1 nor the L2 has a privileged status in L3 acquisition so transfer can occur from either the L1 or the L2 and on a property-by-property basis. We tested these predictions by examining the acquisition of Chinese null and overt… read more
2017 Reexamining the acquisition of null subject pronouns in a second language: Focus on referential and pragmatic constraints Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:1, pp. 33–62 | Article
This study re-examines the L2 acquisition of referential and pragmatic properties of null and overt subject pronouns by advanced English learners of Spanish under the assumption that both forms display levels of complexity at the syntax–pragmatics interface. Our main hypothesis is that null… read more
2017 Bridging the gap between selective and non-selective L1 attrition: The role of L1-L2 structural (dis)similarity Epistemological issue with keynote article “The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development” by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke, pp. 686–690 | Commentary
2016 Synchronic change in a multidialectal Spanish community: Evidence from null and postverbal subjects Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence, Cuza, Alejandro, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson (eds.), pp. 53–72 | Article
Recent developments in linguistic theory have successfully reconciled diachronic syntactic change (Biberauer & Roberts, 2006; Breibarth, Lucas, & Willis, 2008; Roberts, 2007) and intra-speaker variation (Adger & Smith, 2005, 2010; Henry, 1995; Barbiers, 2005) with Minimalist models of the language… read more
2011 Morphology and syntax dissociation in SLA: A study on clitic acquisition in Spanish Morphology and its Interfaces, Galani, Alexandra, Glyn Hicks and George Tsoulas (eds.), pp. 291–320 | Article
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… read more
2008 SPLLOC: A new database for Spanish second language acquisition research EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 8 (2008), Roberts, Leah, Florence Myles and Annabelle David (eds.), pp. 287–304 | Article
The contribution of Spanish to the field of SLA continues to grow (Lafford & Salaberry 2003; Montrul 2004), and the need for good L2 Spanish datasets is becoming increasingly evident. In this paper we introduce a newly created database titled Spanish Learner Language Oral Corpus (SPLLOC),… read more
2004 The Effects of Phonological Cues on the Syntax of Focus Constructions in Spanish Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 69 ff. | Article