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Alejandro Cuza; Laura Solano-Escobar – Second Language Research, 2025
The present study examined the production of inalienable possession with body parts in Spanish among 20 school-age children of Mexican-born parents born and raised in the United States. The results were compared to those of 20 first-generation immigrant parents (main input providers), 27 Spanish-dominant children of similar age, and 12 Spanish…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Mexican Americans, Language Dominance
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Kim, Kitaek; Schwartz, Bonnie D. – Second Language Research, 2022
In the English "tough" construction (TC), knowledge of "tough" movement is necessary for target performance (the object-interpretation only; e.g. "John is easy to see" e). The acquisition of the English TC raises a learnability problem for first-language (L1) Korean learners of English as a second language (L2): (1)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Syntax, Native Language, Korean
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Perez-Cortes, Silvia – Second Language Research, 2022
The present investigation examines intra-speaker variability in heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish by focusing on the potential effects of two variables in their acquisition of mood: lexical frequency and morphological regularity. To do so, this study tested participants' interpretation and use of early-acquired mood alternations conveying either…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Morphology (Languages), Verbs, Spanish