Article published in:
Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana M. LicerasEdited by Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Elena Valenzuela and Cristina Martínez Sanz
[Studies in Bilingualism 51] 2016
► pp. 187–209
On the production of differential object marking and wh-question formation in native and non-native Spanish
Alejandro Cuza | Purdue University
Lauren Miller | University of Central Arkansas
Mariluz Ortiz | Purdue University
The present study explores the elicited production of differential object marking and subject-verb inversion in matrix and embedded wh- questions in Spanish among 16 English-speaking L2 learners and 17 Spanish-speaking immigrants serving as control baseline. Results from an elicited production task show high levels of variability among the L2 learners, crucially with differential object marking in animate and specific contexts and with obligatory inversion in embedded wh- questions. Furthermore, our data show overall more difficulty with inversion in embedded questions than with differential object marking, suggesting that structural complexity, frequency and transfer from English may cause a structure not on an interface level to present more difficulties for advanced L2 learners in this case. The results are discussed along the lines of previous research on vulnerable domains, and the role of crosslinguistic influence, structural complexity and surface overlap in language development.
Keywords: L2 acquisition, cross-linguistic influence, differential object marking,
Wh- questions, syntax-semantics interface
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The syntax of DOM and interrogative inversion in Spanish and English
- 2.1Differential object marking
- 2.2Subject-inversion in wh-questions
- 3.The bilingual acquisition of DOM and subject-verb inversion in Spanish
- 3.1Differential object marking
- 3.2Subject-verb inversion in Spanish interrogatives
- 3.3Research questions and hypotheses
- 4.
The study
- 4.1The participants
- 4.2Methods
- 4.2.1Direct object marking
- 4.2.2Subject-verb inversion
- 5.Results and discussion
- 5.1Differential object marking
- 5.2Subject-verb inversion
- 6.Conclusions
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Notes -
References
Published online: 16 December 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.51.08cuz
https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.51.08cuz
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