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Gupton, Timothy; Sánchez Calderón, Silvia – Second Language Research, 2023
We examine the second language (L2) acquisition of variable Spanish word order by first language (L1) speakers of English via the acquisition of unaccusative and transitive predicates in various focus-related contexts. We employ two bimodal linguistic tasks: (1) acceptability judgment task (B-AJT) and (2) appropriateness preference task (B-APT).…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Pladevall-Ballester, Elisabet – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
Given that L1A of subject properties in non-null subject languages emerges later than that of null subject languages, this study aims at determining to what extent the same pattern of acquisition is observed in early child L2A in bilingual immersion settings where English and Spanish are both source and target languages. Using an elicited oral…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Child Language, Bilingualism