Naomi Shin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Naomi Shin plays a role.

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Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

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The Interface Hypothesis predicts that syntax-discourse interface features are acquired later than features involving the interface between syntax and other components of grammar. The Frequency Hypothesis predicts that frequent grammatical patterns are acquired earlier than infrequent ones. This… read more | Chapter
Shin, Naomi, Barbara Rodríguez, Aja Armijo and Molly Perara-Lunde. 2021. Child heritage speakers’ production and comprehension of direct object clitic gender in Spanish. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children, Fernandez, Leigh B., Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.), pp. 159–186
This study investigates 37 child heritage speakers’ direct object (DO) clitics in Spanish. Results from a production task show that DO expression versus omission was related to Spanish vocabulary: the lower the vocabulary score, the more omitted DOs. In contrast, DO clitic gender was related to… read more | Chapter
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Shin, Naomi, Barbara Rodríguez, Aja Armijo and Molly Perara-Lunde. 2019. Child heritage speakers’ production and comprehension of direct object clitic gender in Spanish. Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children, Azpiroz, Maialen Iraola, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez (eds.), pp. 659–686
This study investigates 37 child heritage speakers’ direct object (DO) clitics in Spanish. Results from a production task show that DO expression versus omission was related to Spanish vocabulary: the lower the vocabulary score, the more omitted DOs. In contrast, DO clitic gender was related to… read more | Article
Erker, Daniel and Naomi Shin. 2018. First principles in linguistic inquiry. Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry: Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy, Shin, Naomi and Daniel Erker (eds.), pp. 1–6
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Shin, Naomi. 2016. Children’s Spanish subject pronoun expression: A developmental change in tú?. Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis, Sessarego, Sandro and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero (eds.), pp. 155–176
This study explores children’s acquisition of structured morphosyntactic variation by examining Spanish subject pronoun expression. Analyses of 5,923 verbs produced by 154 Mexican children, ages 6 to 16, show that the variables that most strongly constrain the oldest children’s pronoun usage –… read more | Article
It has been suggested that contact between Spanish and English results in an increased rate of Spanish subject pronouns and a desensitization to factors that constrain pronoun usage. Yet, evidence for such contact-induced change has been found in some U.S. communities, but not others. In this study… read more | Article
Woods, Michael R. and Naomi Shin. 2016. “Fijáte…sabes que le digo yo”: Salvadoran voseo and tuteo in Oregon*. Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas, Moyna, María Irene and Susana Rivera-Mills (eds.), pp. 305–324
This study investigates voseo and tuteo among Salvadorans residing in Oregon and examines whether tuteo increases as a result of contact with Hispanics of Mexican descent. Analyses of 404 tokens of 2sg verbs taken from natural conversations indicated clear preferences depending on social networks.… read more | Article
Previous research on language mixing has revealed similarities in written and oral production with respect to syntactic and pragmatic patterns (e.g. Callahan 2004). In this study we find, however, that the two modes of expression diverge in loanword gender assignment. English-origin NPs inserted… read more | Article
Shin, Naomi and Ricardo Otheguy. 2005. Overt nonspecific Ellos in Spanish in New York. Spanish in Context 2:2, pp. 157–174
In general Spanish, references to nonspecific third-person plurals are usually made by means of a verb occurring with the null form of the subject pronoun, as in llamaron del banco, rather than by means of a verb occurring with the overt form of the subject pronoun. In contrast to the position in… read more | Article
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