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