Chapter 9
The processing of Differential Object Marking by heritage speakers of
Spanish
This study examines the online processing of Differential Object
Marking by heritage speakers of Spanish living in the U.S. Previous research
has found that even heritage speakers with high proficiency in Spanish omit
DOM with animate objects in oral production and find omitted DOM acceptable
in judgment tasks. Therefore, this study investigated whether heritage
speakers’ acceptability of DOM omission is reflected in their language
processing. Twenty monolingual-raised native speakers and 20 heritage
speakers participated in an eye-tracking reading experiment. Sentences
varied in DOM marking (use vs. omission) and word order (SVO vs. VSO).
Overall, reading time data indicated that heritage speakers behaved more
similarly to monolingual-raised native speakers than predicted. The
potential effects of language variation and language attrition are
discussed.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Heritage speakers and the heritage language
- 3.Differential Object Marking in Spanish
- 4.Acquisition of Differential Object Marking by monolingual and heritage speakers
- 5.Methodology
- 5.1Participants
- 5.2Materials
- 5.3Procedure
- 5.4Data analysis
- 6.Results
- 7.Discussion
-
Notes
-
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