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The Construal of Goal-Oriented Motion Events by Swedish Speakers of L2 Spanish

Encoding of motion endpoints and Manner of motion
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Abstract

The current study investigates motion event construal in Swedish speakers of L2 Spanish. In particular, the study examines the encoding of motion endpoints and manner of motion through elicited video clip descriptions of everyday motion event situations. The results show that Swedish learners of Spanish exhibit the same, high endpoint frequencies as their monolingual Swedish peers, thus deviating from the Spanish native pattern. Moreover, the learners used the same amount of manner verbs as Spanish natives, but were more prone to give additional manner information in periphrastic constructions. These findings are interpreted in relation to previous literature on the construal of motion events in L2 learners and the notion of conceptual transfer (Cadierno & Ruiz 2006; Jarvis & Pavlenko 2008; von Stutterheim 2003). Keywords: Motion events; event construal; endpoint encoding; satellite-framed languages; verb-framed languages; Path; Manner; Spanish; Swedish

Abstract

The current study investigates motion event construal in Swedish speakers of L2 Spanish. In particular, the study examines the encoding of motion endpoints and manner of motion through elicited video clip descriptions of everyday motion event situations. The results show that Swedish learners of Spanish exhibit the same, high endpoint frequencies as their monolingual Swedish peers, thus deviating from the Spanish native pattern. Moreover, the learners used the same amount of manner verbs as Spanish natives, but were more prone to give additional manner information in periphrastic constructions. These findings are interpreted in relation to previous literature on the construal of motion events in L2 learners and the notion of conceptual transfer (Cadierno & Ruiz 2006; Jarvis & Pavlenko 2008; von Stutterheim 2003). Keywords: Motion events; event construal; endpoint encoding; satellite-framed languages; verb-framed languages; Path; Manner; Spanish; Swedish

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Spanish as the L2 in a bilingual society
  5. Crosslinguistic influences in the mapping of functional features in Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism 21
  6. Verbal agreement in the L2 Spanish of speakers of Nahuatl 49
  7. Early coda production in bilingual Spanish and Basque 75
  8. The locative paradigm in the L2 Spanish of Catalan native speakers 105
  9. Spanish as an L2 in a non-bilingual society
  10. The acquisition of Spanish in a bilingual and a trilingual L1 setting 135
  11. Knowledge and Processing of Subject-related Discourse Properties in L2 Near-native Speakers of Spanish, L1 Farsi 169
  12. Subject pronouns in the L2 Spanish of Moroccan Arabic speakers 201
  13. The Construal of Goal-Oriented Motion Events by Swedish Speakers of L2 Spanish 233
  14. Spanish as an L2 in an instructional context
  15. Object Drop in L2 Spanish, (Complex) Feature Reassembly and L1 Pre-emption 257
  16. The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish by Turkish speakers 281
  17. Copula choice in adjectival contstructions in Dutch L1 Spanish L2 309
  18. Typological proximity in L2 acquisition 329
  19. Index 359
The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings
This chapter is in the book The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.3.09don

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Spanish as the L2 in a bilingual society
  5. Crosslinguistic influences in the mapping of functional features in Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism 21
  6. Verbal agreement in the L2 Spanish of speakers of Nahuatl 49
  7. Early coda production in bilingual Spanish and Basque 75
  8. The locative paradigm in the L2 Spanish of Catalan native speakers 105
  9. Spanish as an L2 in a non-bilingual society
  10. The acquisition of Spanish in a bilingual and a trilingual L1 setting 135
  11. Knowledge and Processing of Subject-related Discourse Properties in L2 Near-native Speakers of Spanish, L1 Farsi 169
  12. Subject pronouns in the L2 Spanish of Moroccan Arabic speakers 201
  13. The Construal of Goal-Oriented Motion Events by Swedish Speakers of L2 Spanish 233
  14. Spanish as an L2 in an instructional context
  15. Object Drop in L2 Spanish, (Complex) Feature Reassembly and L1 Pre-emption 257
  16. The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish by Turkish speakers 281
  17. Copula choice in adjectival contstructions in Dutch L1 Spanish L2 309
  18. Typological proximity in L2 acquisition 329
  19. Index 359
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