Rachel Klassen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Rachel Klassen plays a role.

Titles

The Acquisition and Processing of Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax: Theoretical and experimental issues

Edited by Rachel Klassen, Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Joanne Markle LaMontagne and Almudena Basanta y Romero-Valdespino

Special issue of Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 29:2 (2016) vi, 307 pp.

Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013

Edited by Rachel Klassen, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 4] 2015. xviii, 339 pp.

Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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Liceras, Juana M. and Rachel Klassen 2019 Compounding and derivation: On the ‘promiscuity’ of derivational affixes Representation and Processing in Bilingual Morphology, Austin, Jennifer R. (ed.), pp. 42–72 | Article

Inflectional affixes only adhere to the head of Noun-Noun (NN) compounds which implies that the plural of casa cuna (‘crib house’) or hombre lobo (‘werewolf’) is casa-s cuna (‘crib houses’) and hombre-s lobo (‘werewolves’) respectively, while *casa cuna-s and *hombre lobo-s ‒ with the plural… read more

Klassen, Rachel 2016 When masculine as default supercedes L1 transfer: Bilingual speakers of languages with asymmetric gender systems Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras, Alba de la Fuente, Anahí, Elena Valenzuela and Cristina Martínez Sanz (eds.), pp. 73–98 | Article

Previous research has shown that L2 gender use strategies vary according to the bilingual’s L1, with native speakers of languages without grammatical gender (such as English) tending to use masculine as a default while native speakers of languages with a gender feature (such as Spanish) opt for… read more

Klassen, Rachel, Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Joanne Markle LaMontagne and Almudena Basanta y Romero-Valdespino 2016 Introduction The Acquisition and Processing of Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax: Theoretical and experimental issues, Klassen, Rachel, Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Joanne Markle LaMontagne and Almudena Basanta y Romero-Valdespino (eds.), pp. 345–349 | Introduction

Liceras, Juana M., Raquel Fernández Fuertes and Rachel Klassen 2016 Language dominance and language nativeness: The view from English-Spanish codeswitching Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US, Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa E., Catherine M. Mazak and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 107–138 | Article

Investigating the interpretation and production of codeswitched structures involving functional and lexical categories by bilingual speakers constitutes a reliable tool to assess language dominance and/or nativeness. Language dominance has been described and measured in the context of bilingualism… read more