Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Geographic variation of voseo on Spanish Twitter 7
5. Chapter 2. Organic models for measuring Spanish learners’ linguistic complexity 39
6. Chapter 3. Role of social interaction abroad in the L2 acquisition of sociolinguistic variation 63
7. Chapter 4. The effect of grammatical person on subject pronoun expression in the oral narratives of Spanish second language learners 85
8. Chapter 5. Pied-piping in degree wh-clauses in Spanish 109
9. Chapter 6. Degree, time and focus 133
10. Chapter 7. Neural evidence for the processing of referential ambiguity and referential failure in Spanish 153
11. Chapter 8. The overt pronoun penalty for plural anaphors in Spanish 175
12. Chapter 9. On the origins of Portuguese para form variation 189
13. Chapter 10. Developing epistemic meaning 215
14. Chapter 11. The acquisition of personal a among Chinese-speaking L2 learners of Spanish 233
15. Chapter 12. Proposing a tripartite intensifier system 253
16. Chapter 13. Public signage in a multilingual Caribbean enclave 273
17. Chapter 14. No es tan simple como parece 295
18. Chapter 15. The acquisition of obligatory and variable mood selection in epistemic predicates by L2 learners and heritage speakers of Spanish 319
19. Index 343