This study examines Differential Object Marking (DOM) in native and largely naturalistic near-native L2 River Plate Spanish speakers (L1 Persian). Persian and Spanish mark certain direct objects (DO). Most syntactic descriptions of Spanish claim [+animate,+specific] DOs are marked while in Persian,… read more
By examining knowledge of interpretive constraints that obtain from new DP feature acquisition in Spanish, this chapter tests the Bottleneck Hypothesis’s claim (Slabakova, 2013, 2014, 2016) that functional morphology is the “bottleneck” of SLA. Individual data from two language groups (Romance… read more
This chapter investigates the discourse-constrained distribution of referential subject pronouns (RSP) by native Farsi-speaking, adult second language (L2) Spanish speakers. Results from offline and online tasks measuring participants’ knowledge and processing of overt and null subjects in… read more
Assuming transfer of the L1 grammar, in the present study the question of whether all parameters can be reset even with access to UG is examined in light of the subset/superset relationship. Specifically, the resetting of the Null Subject Parameter (NSP) in L2 learners of English (L1 Spanish) is… read more