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Linguistic Approaches to BilingualismVol. 13:4 (2023) ► pp.439–467
The use of default forms in codeswitching
Mood selection in Spanish
This paper examines the effects that codeswitching (CS) has on mood selection in restrictive relative clauses in
the Spanish of heritage speakers (HSs). Spanish HS participants completed an online acceptability judgment task in which they
rated monolingual (i.e., unilingual) and codeswitched sentences containing verbs in indicative and subjunctive mood in restrictive
relative clauses manipulated for specificity of the antecedent. The results indicated an association of the subjunctive with
non-specificity in monolingual sentences that was lost in the codeswitched sentences, although this effect was modulated by
proficiency. These results are discussed in terms of the use of default forms in CS.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Mood selection in Spanish relative clauses
- 3.Codeswitching as an independent variable
- 4.Present study
- 4.1Participants
- 4.2Materials
- 5.Results
- 6.Discussion
- 7.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
-
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