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Chapter 12. The processing of intrasentential anaphoric subject pronouns in L2 Spanish

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Abstract

This paper examines whether L2 learners of Spanish can attain native-like interpretive and parsing patterns in intrasentential subject anaphor resolution, and the extent to which these patterns are modulated by L1 transfer. Adult advanced L2 learners of Spanish with different L1s (Moroccan Arabic, a null-subject language, and English, a non-null subject language) completed an experiment utilizing online (the moving window paradigm) and offline (answers to comprehension questions) techniques. Both Arabic and English learners of Spanish performed in a native-like way at the interpretive and parsing levels. These patterns suggest that L1 transfer plays no crucial role when interpreting and processing intrasentential anaphoric subjects at least at the advanced level.

Abstract

This paper examines whether L2 learners of Spanish can attain native-like interpretive and parsing patterns in intrasentential subject anaphor resolution, and the extent to which these patterns are modulated by L1 transfer. Adult advanced L2 learners of Spanish with different L1s (Moroccan Arabic, a null-subject language, and English, a non-null subject language) completed an experiment utilizing online (the moving window paradigm) and offline (answers to comprehension questions) techniques. Both Arabic and English learners of Spanish performed in a native-like way at the interpretive and parsing levels. These patterns suggest that L1 transfer plays no crucial role when interpreting and processing intrasentential anaphoric subjects at least at the advanced level.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Syntax-semantics
  5. Chapter 1. Embedding verbs and subjunctive mood 9
  6. Chapter 2. Towards a unified treatment of Spanish copulas 33
  7. Chapter 3. How French sheds new light on scalar particles 53
  8. Chapter 4. Pluralities of events 77
  9. Part II. Morphosyntax
  10. Chapter 5. Laísmo and “le-for-les” 101
  11. Chapter 6. The morphological markedness of φ 127
  12. Chapter 7. Partial subject paradigms and feature geometry in Northern Occitan dialects 147
  13. Chapter 8. Automatic detection of syntactic patterns from texts with application to Spanish clitic doubling 169
  14. Part III. Bilingualism and language acquisition
  15. Chapter 9. Voice quality transfer in the production of Spanish heritage speakers and English L2 learners of Spanish 191
  16. Chapter 10. Null subjects in the early acquisition of English by child heritage speakers of Spanish 209
  17. Chapter 11. Return to Frenchville 229
  18. Chapter 12. The processing of intrasentential anaphoric subject pronouns in L2 Spanish 247
  19. Index 265
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11
This chapter is in the book Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11
https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.11.12com

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Syntax-semantics
  5. Chapter 1. Embedding verbs and subjunctive mood 9
  6. Chapter 2. Towards a unified treatment of Spanish copulas 33
  7. Chapter 3. How French sheds new light on scalar particles 53
  8. Chapter 4. Pluralities of events 77
  9. Part II. Morphosyntax
  10. Chapter 5. Laísmo and “le-for-les” 101
  11. Chapter 6. The morphological markedness of φ 127
  12. Chapter 7. Partial subject paradigms and feature geometry in Northern Occitan dialects 147
  13. Chapter 8. Automatic detection of syntactic patterns from texts with application to Spanish clitic doubling 169
  14. Part III. Bilingualism and language acquisition
  15. Chapter 9. Voice quality transfer in the production of Spanish heritage speakers and English L2 learners of Spanish 191
  16. Chapter 10. Null subjects in the early acquisition of English by child heritage speakers of Spanish 209
  17. Chapter 11. Return to Frenchville 229
  18. Chapter 12. The processing of intrasentential anaphoric subject pronouns in L2 Spanish 247
  19. Index 265
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