Morphology and syntax dissociation in SLA: a study on clitic acquisition in Spanish
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Arche, Maria J. and Domínguez, Laura (2011) Morphology and syntax dissociation in SLA: a study on clitic acquisition in Spanish. In: Morphology and its Interfaces. Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today (178). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 291-320. ISBN 978 90 272 5561 7 (hbk), 978 90 272 8701 4 (ebk)
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This paper investigates the L2 acquisition of Spanish object clitics by L1 English learners. Spanish clitics are analyzed as bundles of agreement and referential features morphologically marked for number and gender. We examine the relationship between morphology and syntax in L2 learners’ grammars in order to assess two current acquisition hypotheses: the Impaired Representation Hypothesis (IRH) and the Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (MSIH). Data from a production and a comprehension task suggest that learners have an unimpaired narrow syntax, despite apparent inflectional variability. We propose that absent or inaccurate morphology can be explained by a deficit in the mapping to PF. This supports a dissociation between syntactic representation and surface inflection.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | [1] Chapter is in Part 3. Interfaces in psycholinguistics and language acquisition. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | second language acquisition, SLA, Spanish, aspect morphology, syntax, clitic acquisition |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| School / Department / Research Groups: | School of Humanities & Social Sciences School of Humanities & Social Sciences > Department of Languages & International Studies |
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| Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2013 10:00 |
| URI: | http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/6423 |
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