NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pladevall Ballester, Elisabet – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
The apparent optionality in the use of null and overt pronominal subjects and the apparently free word order or distribution of preverbal and postverbal subjects in Spanish obey a number of discourse-pragmatic constraints which play an important role in Spanish L2 subject development. Although research on subject properties at the syntax-discourse…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Form Classes (Languages), Word Order, Spanish
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
de Zarobe, Yolanda Ruiz – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2005
This longitudinal study examines the acquisition of subject pronouns in third language (L3) production. Participants were 90 Basque-Spanish bilingual students, learning English as a third language in a formal setting in the Basque Country. All the participants, who had received the same amount of exposure to English, were divided into three groups…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Indo European Languages