María Cecilia Ainciburu
List of John Benjamins publications for which María Cecilia Ainciburu plays a role.
Articles
2023 Phonic mitigation markers for disagreement in interviews of university learners of Spanish as foreign language Spanish in Context 20:1, pp. 26–49 | Article
In previous studies of the mitigators that occur when a speaker wants to show disagreement with his or her interlocutor, morphosyntactic markers occupy the most relevant part. In oral communication, however, phonic markers play a central role. This research presents the analysis of these markers… read more
2021 Morphological complexity and rated writing proficiency: The case of verbal inflectional diversity in L2 Spanish ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 172:2, pp. 290–318 | Article
Linguistic complexity measures are used to describe second language (L2) performance and assess levels of proficiency and development. Although morphology is considered crucial in L2 acquisition, morphological complexity has been relatively neglected, hindering comprehensive views of grammatical… read more
2019 Medidas de longitud en la investigación empírica de ASL: ¿Medidas de complejidad sintáctica o de fluidez? Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 32:1, pp. 125–154 | Article
El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar el controvertido estatus de tres medidas lingüísticas ampliamente utilizadas en la investigación empírica de Adquisición de Segundas Lenguas, como son la longitud promedio de la unidad terminal, la longitud promedio de la cláusula y la longitud… read more