Silvia Perpiñán

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvia Perpiñán plays a role.

Titles

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario

Edited by Silvia Perpiñán, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 11] 2017. vi, 269 pp.

Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings

Edited by Tiffany Judy and Silvia Perpiñán

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3] 2015. vi, 362 pp.

Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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Perpiñán, Silvia and Silvina Montrul 2023 Does your regional variety help you acquire an additional language? Spanish differential object marking in Northern and Southern Italians Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition, Kolb, Nadine, Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard (eds.), pp. 663–692 | Article

This study investigates Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Italian speakers from two dialectal areas–North and South Italy–learning Spanish. Southern Italo-Romance varieties exhibit a DOM system through a-marking, like Spanish, whereas the Northern varieties, like Standard Italian, only allow… read more

Perpiñán, Silvia and Rafael Marín 2021 Chapter 10. Aspect in the acquisition of the Spanish locative paradigm by Italian L2 learners Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Luisa Meroni (eds.), pp. 191–204 | Chapter

The present study investigates the development of the expression of the locative paradigm in the L2 Spanish of Italian-speaking learners. We investigate (i) whether the developmental stages proposed for English-speaking learners (VanPatten 1987; Perpiñán, Marín & Moreno Villamar 2020) hold for… read more

Perpiñán, Silvia 2017 Catalan-Spanish bilingualism continuum: The expression of non-personal Catalan clitics in the adult grammar of early bilinguals Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:5, pp. 477–513 | Article

This study investigates the expression of Catalan clitics en and hi, which have no grammatical equivalent in Spanish, in the adult grammar of Catalan-Spanish early bilinguals. Participants (N = 57), born and raised in Catalonia, are divided into 3 groups according to their onset of acquisition… read more

Perpiñán, Silvia 2017 Language change at the individual level Epistemological issue with keynote article “The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development” by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke, pp. 750–753 | Commentary

Perpiñán, Silvia, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas 2017 Introduction Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario, Perpiñán, Silvia, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Chapter

Judy, Tiffany and Silvia Perpiñán 2015 Introduction: The importance of crosslinguistic comparison in the study of the acquisition of Spanish The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings, Judy, Tiffany and Silvia Perpiñán (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article

Perpiñán, Silvia 2015 The locative paradigm in the L2 Spanish of Catalan native speakers The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings, Judy, Tiffany and Silvia Perpiñán (eds.), pp. 105–132 | Article

This chapter explores the expression of locative and existential constructions in the Spanish of native speakers of Catalan (N = 20). Three (micro)parametric differences are investigated: the definiteness effect, the eventive effect, and the use of clitics. An oral production task (OPT) and an… read more

Perpiñán, Silvia 2013 Optionality in bilingual native grammars First Language Attrition, Schmid, Monika S. and Barbara Köpke (eds.), pp. 127–156 | Article

This study investigates the vulnerability of mature native grammars at the interfaces in adult Spanish speakers who have been residing in the US for a mean period of five years but continue to use their L1 on a daily basis. Participants were tested on production and comprehension of subject-verb… read more

Perpiñán, Silvia 2013 Chapter 8. Accounting for variability in L2 data: Type of knowledge, task effects, and linguistic structure Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism, Schwieter, John W. (ed.), pp. 165–192 | Article

This chapter examines variability in L2 data and isolates two factors that have a significant impact on L2 performance: task modality and linguistic structure. A group of native speakers of Spanish and two groups of intermediate L2 Spanish learners (L1 English and L1 Arabic) completed an oral and a… read more

Perpiñán, Silvia 2011 Optionality in bilingual native grammars First language attrition/L'attrition de la langue première, Schmid, Monika S. and Barbara Köpke (eds.), pp. 312–341 | Article