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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 13] 2017
► pp. 67–92

Chapter 4
Knowledge of mood in internal and external interface contexts in Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands

| University of Amsterdam
| University of Amsterdam
| University of Amsterdam
| University of Amsterdam

This study investigates Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands on their judgments of Spanish mood in a syntactic context and in two interface contexts: the internal interface between syntax and semantics and the external interface between syntax and pragmatics. The strong version of the Interface Hypothesis predicts most vulnerability in the external interface context, and least in the syntactic context. The results of a scalar acceptability judgment task provide support for this hypothesis. We furthermore discuss other possibly relevant factors such as cross-linguistic influence, the default status of the indicative, order of L1 acquisition and variability and frequency in monolingual Spanish.

Keywords: heritage speakers, Spanish, mood, Interface Hypothesis, Dutch
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Spanish mood
  • 3.Previous research with mood in Spanish heritage speakers
  • 4.Focus of the present study
  • 5.Method
    • 5.1Participants
    • 5.2Tasks and procedure
    • 5.3Stimuli
  • 6.Results
    • 6.1Group results
    • 6.2Statistical analyses
    • 6.3Native speakers’ variability
    • 6.4Heritage speakers’ results
    • 6.5Native and heritage patterns
    • 6.6Individual results
    • 6.7Verb types within the external interface
  • 7.Discussion
    • 7.1Alternative accounts
    • 7.2Limitations of the present study
  • 8.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 31 May 2017
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