Chapter published in:
The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking
Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 26] 2020
► pp. 161–181

Chapter 6
On the acceptability of the Spanish DOM among Romanian-Spanish bilinguals

| Rutgers University

Spanish and Romanian have Differential Object Marking (DOM) systems conditioned by similar but not the same features. This study examined whether Romanian-speaking highly proficient L2 users of Spanish show signs of crosslinguistic influence from Romanian in their acquisition of the distribution of DOM in Spanish. A group of Spanish-speaking monolinguals and a group of Romanian-Spanish bilinguals who acquired Spanish naturalistically completed an Acceptability Judgment Task that investigated their receptive grammatical knowledge of the DOM in Spanish and, for the bilinguals, Romanian. The results are discussed within the frame of the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis and the Activation Approach.

Keywords: second language acquisition, Spanish DOM, Romanian DOM, endstate of acquisition
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Differential Object Marking in Spanish and Romanian
    • 2.1The acquisition of Spanish DOM by Romanian speakers
    • 2.2Previous studies on the acquisition of the Spanish DOM
  • 3.The study
    • 3.1Research questions and hypotheses
    • 3.2Methods
      • 3.2.1Participants
      • 3.2.2Tasks and procedures
        • 3.2.2.1First screening task: DELE
        • 3.2.2.2Second screening task: MiNT
        • 3.2.2.3Acceptability judgment task
  • 4.Results
  • 5.Discussion
  • References
Published online: 18 June 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.26.06lop
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