7 results on '"Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro"'
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2. Delay in the acquisition of Differential Object Marking by Spanish monolingual and bilingual teenagers.
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Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro, Pires, Acrisio, and Nediger, Will
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TEENAGERS , *SEMANTICS , *COMPARATIVE linguistics , *LANGUAGE & languages , *LANGUAGE acquisition - Abstract
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This study investigated the acquisition of Spanish Differential Object Marking (DOM) by bilingual and monolingual Spanish teenagers, evaluating to which extent their knowledge of DOM can be explained by different theories of acquisition. Design/Methodology/Approach: Two experiments with bilingual and monolingual Spanish teenagers (ages 10 to 15) were conducted. The experiments included an Elicited Production Completion Task, in which a space was to either be filled with an object marker or left blank, and a Context-Matching Acceptability Judgment Task. Data and Analysis: 54 subjects (44 bilinguals and 10 monolinguals) were tested. For both tasks, there were 6 conditions testing different syntactic–semantic features that trigger DOM (test items n = 42 in each task). The data were analysed with linear regressions and repeated measures analyses of variance. Findings/Conclusions: This study’s results show that bilingual teenagers do not demonstrate significant differences from age-matched monolinguals in their competence regarding the syntactic–semantic properties of DOM. Both groups are below ceiling in showing evidence of knowledge about all the syntactic–semantic features involved in DOM, indicating the possibility of a significant delay beyond childhood in their acquisition. Originality: There are few previous studies on the acquisition of DOM, and none which consider the full range of features and specific population considered here. Work by Montrul focuses on the animacy feature, while Guijarro-Fuentes considers the full range of features, but for adult L2 learners of Spanish. Significance/Implications: This study shows that the Interface Vulnerability Hypothesis, the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis, the Full Access/Full Transfer Hypothesis and the Interpretability Hypothesis have limitations in explaining its results. Instead, a feature-based approach is proposed in which the specification of features beyond animacy raises difficulties for the acquisition of DOM until late childhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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3. The impact of instruction on second-language implicit knowledge: Evidence against encapsulation.
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TOTH, PAUL D. and GUIJARRO-FUENTES, PEDRO
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SECONDARY education , *TEENAGERS , *IMMIGRANTS , *ANALYSIS of variance , *COMMUNICATIVE competence , *COMPARATIVE grammar , *HISPANIC Americans , *INTELLECT , *LEARNING strategies , *RESEARCH funding , *SCALE analysis (Psychology) , *SEMANTICS , *TEACHING methods , *PRE-tests & post-tests , *REPEATED measures design , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
This paper compares explicit instruction in second-language Spanish with a control treatment on a written picture description task and a timed auditory grammaticality judgment task. Participants came from two intact, third-year US high school classes, with one experiencing a week of communicative lessons on the Spanish clitic se (n = 15) and the other exposed to se only incidentally (n = 20). Explicit instruction consisted of grammar rules with sentence-level examples, followed by communicative tasks. Three test versions were administered within a split-bloc design as a pretest, immediate posttest, and delayed posttest 6 weeks after instruction. The instructed group increased targetlike uses of se on both tasks and sustained gains through the delayed posttest, although first-language transfer errors persisted. Meanwhile, overgeneralization errors centered on semantic and syntactic contexts similar to the instructional object, aligning with the unergative–unaccusative distinction among intransitive verbs. It is argued that the data provide evidence for the permeability of second-language implicit knowledge to explicit instruction and against total encapsulation as a model of the mind. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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4. The acquisition of interpretable features in L2 Spanish: Personal a.
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GUIJARRO-FUENTES, PEDRO
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SPANISH language education , *SECOND language acquisition , *PREPOSITIONS , *LANGUAGE ability , *SEMANTICS ,SPOKEN Spanish - Abstract
This paper examines the acquisition of interpretable features in English second language (L2) learners of Spanish by investigating the personal preposition a in Spanish. The distribution of a in direct object NPs relates to the animacy/specificity of the NP, the animacy/agentivity of the subject, and the semantics of the predicate (Torrego, 1998; Zagona, 2002); i.e., personal a is conditioned by the interpretability of semantic features. Forty-nine English L2 learners of Spanish of three different proficiency levels, and 16 Spanish controls took part in a Completion Task and an Acceptability Judgement Task. These revealed that L2 learners of Spanish of all proficiency levels behaved differently from native speakers of Spanish. The L2 learners appear to have acquired some of the interpretable features (i.e., [±animate]), but show delays with others. Nonetheless, our data show partial convergence by advanced learners with the native speakers: some features are acquirable, while others may be less accessible and subject to developmental processes. In explaining our data we appeal to Lardiere's (2008, 2009) Feature Reassembly Hypothesis, but assess it critically and aim to develop it further by considering the complexity constraints in terms of the number of features involved and their configuration. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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5. Feature composition in Differential Object Marking.
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Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro
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SECOND language acquisition , *SPANISH language , *SEMANTICS , *LINGUISTICS , *PRONOUNS (Grammar) , *PREPOSITIONS , *INTERLANGUAGE (Language learning) - Abstract
In this paper we examine the acquisition of interpretable features in English L2 learners of Spanish by investigating the personal preposition a in Spanish. The presence of a in direct object NPs relates to the animacy/specificity of the NP, the animacy/agentivity of the subject and the semantics of the predicate (Torrego, 1998; Zagona, 2002); that is, personal a is constrained by the interpretability of semantic features. Forty-nine English L2 learners of Spanish of different proficiency levels, and 16 Spanish controls participated in an Acceptability Judgement task. The results showed that L2 learners of Spanish across three proficiency levels behaved differently from native speakers of Spanish. The L2 learners seem to have attained some of the interpretable features (i.e., [±animate]) of the Spanish a-DP direct objects, but reveal delays with others. Nonetheless, our data illustrate partial convergence by advanced learners with the native speakers: some interpretable features are attainable, while others may be less accessible and subject to developmental processes. In analyzing our data we draw on Lardiere’s (2008, 2009) Feature Reassembly Hypothesis, but expanded and extended it in an attempt to critically evaluate and broaden it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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6. Acquiring phenomena at the syntax/semantics interface in L2 Spanish: The personal preposition a.
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Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro and Marinis, Theodoros
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SECOND language acquisition , *SYNTAX (Grammar) , *PREPOSITIONS , *DISCOURSE analysis , *SEMANTICS , *COMPARATIVE linguistics , *SPANISH language , *BILINGUALISM , *MULTILINGUALISM - Abstract
Recent second language (L2) acquisition research has proposed that purely syntactic features are easier to acquire and less vulnerable than ones involving the interfaces (Sorace, 2004; Serratrice et al. 2004). The present paper addresses this issue by investigating the acquisition of the Spanish personal preposition a in English L2 learners of Spanish. The distribution of a in direct object NPs relates to the specificity/definiteness of the NP, the animacy/agentivity of the subject, and verb semantics (Torrego 1998; Zagona 2002). 33 English L2 learners of Spanish of different proficiency levels, and 14 Spanish controls participated in an acceptability judgement task. The results showed significant differences between native speakers and L2 learners of all proficiency levels, who performed at chance, and support the claim that L2 learners have difficulties acquiring structures involving the syntax/semantics interface. However, the advanced learners showed sensitivity to the least complex condition providing evidence that interface phenomena may be acquirable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
7. Specificity in Spanish: The syntax/semantics interface in SLA.
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Borgonovo, Claudia, de Garavito, Joyce Bruhn, Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro, Prévost, Philippe, and Valenzuela, Elena
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SPANISH language , *ADULT students , *SYNTAX (Grammar) , *PRAGMATICS education , *MODERN languages , *SECOND language acquisition , *LINGUISTIC context , *LEARNING ability , *SEMANTICS - Abstract
Recent proposals argue that interface areas such as syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics are particularly difficult for adult learners, in comparison to purely syntactic phenomena (Sorace 2003, 2004). In contrast, other research shows that L2 learners are able to acquire target representations even when the interpretation is not readily available in the input (Borgonovo, Bruhn de Garavito and Prévost 2005, Dekydtspotter and Sprouse 2001). In this paper we add to the growing literature on the acquisition of interpretational properties by showing that adult L2 learners can acquire knowledge of the syntactic correlates of the semantic notion of specificity in constructions involving topicalisation and null objects in Spanish. The learners’ first language (L1) is Brazilian Portuguese, where specificity does not play the role in these constructions that it plays in Spanish. Results show that learners can go beyond their L1 with respect to the acquisition of interface phenomena, suggesting that native-like grammars are attainable in L2 acquisition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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