Chapter 2. L1 effects as manifestations of individual differences in the L2 acquisition of the Spanish tense-aspect-system
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Tim Diaubalick
Abstract
Several hypotheses about aspect in Spanish SLA focus on postulating patterns a learner will go through. TheLexical Aspect Hypothesis(Andersen, 1986,1991) and theDefault Past Tense Hypothesis(Salaberry, 1999) are two examples discussed in recent studies (see e.g.Comajoan, 2013). This chapter shows that our results obtained via Grammaticality Judgments and a Production Task do not align completely with any of these hypotheses. Instead, individual differences (Dörnyei, 2006) must be considered, which a comparison between 61 German and 70 Romance speakers supports. Findings reveal some general attainment difficulties for all learners, but the emerging structures are not universal. Interestingly, our native control group (n = 15) also shows high variation, strengthening the observation that the selection of a tense-aspect form is heavily dependent on subjectivity.
Abstract
Several hypotheses about aspect in Spanish SLA focus on postulating patterns a learner will go through. TheLexical Aspect Hypothesis(Andersen, 1986,1991) and theDefault Past Tense Hypothesis(Salaberry, 1999) are two examples discussed in recent studies (see e.g.Comajoan, 2013). This chapter shows that our results obtained via Grammaticality Judgments and a Production Task do not align completely with any of these hypotheses. Instead, individual differences (Dörnyei, 2006) must be considered, which a comparison between 61 German and 70 Romance speakers supports. Findings reveal some general attainment difficulties for all learners, but the emerging structures are not universal. Interestingly, our native control group (n = 15) also shows high variation, strengthening the observation that the selection of a tense-aspect form is heavily dependent on subjectivity.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
- Chapter 2. L1 effects as manifestations of individual differences in the L2 acquisition of the Spanish tense-aspect-system 9
- Chapter 3. The Typological Primacy Model and bilingual types 41
- Chapter 4. Knowledge of mood in internal and external interface contexts in Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands 67
- Chapter 5. Null objects with and without bilingualism in the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking world 95
- Chapter 6. The Compounding Parameter and L2 acquisition 123
- Chapter 7. Prosodic transfer among Spanish-K’ichee’ bilinguals 149
- Chapter 8. Spatial language and cognition among the last Ixcatec-Spanish bilinguals (Mexico) 175
- Chapter 9. Experimentally inducing Spanish-English code-switching 211
- Chapter 10. The influence of structural distance in cross-linguistic transfer 235
- Chapter 11. Obliteration after Vocabulary Insertion 261
- Chapter 12. Bilingual production of relative clauses in languages with opposite head-complement directionality 283
- Chapter 13. The global and the local 313
- Index 325
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
- Chapter 2. L1 effects as manifestations of individual differences in the L2 acquisition of the Spanish tense-aspect-system 9
- Chapter 3. The Typological Primacy Model and bilingual types 41
- Chapter 4. Knowledge of mood in internal and external interface contexts in Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands 67
- Chapter 5. Null objects with and without bilingualism in the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking world 95
- Chapter 6. The Compounding Parameter and L2 acquisition 123
- Chapter 7. Prosodic transfer among Spanish-K’ichee’ bilinguals 149
- Chapter 8. Spatial language and cognition among the last Ixcatec-Spanish bilinguals (Mexico) 175
- Chapter 9. Experimentally inducing Spanish-English code-switching 211
- Chapter 10. The influence of structural distance in cross-linguistic transfer 235
- Chapter 11. Obliteration after Vocabulary Insertion 261
- Chapter 12. Bilingual production of relative clauses in languages with opposite head-complement directionality 283
- Chapter 13. The global and the local 313
- Index 325
