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Object Clitic Use and Intuition in the Spanish of Heritage Speakers from Brazil
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López Otero, Julio César; Cuza, Alejandro; Jiao, Jian – Second Language Research, 2023
The present study examines the production and intuition of Spanish clitics in clitic left dislocation (CLLD) structures among 26 Spanish heritage speakers (HSs) born and raised in Brazil. We tested clitic production and intuition in contexts in which Spanish clitics vary as a function of the semantic features of the object that they refer to.…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, Intuition, Semantics
The Production and Comprehension of Spanish "se" Use in L2 and Heritage Spanish
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García-Tejada, Aída; Cuza, Alejandro; Lustres Alonso, Eduardo Gerardo – Second Language Research, 2023
Previous studies in the acquisition of clitic se in Spanish have focused on the syntactic processes needed to perform detransitivization. However, current approaches on event structure reveal that "se" encodes aspectual information which is crucial for its acquisition. We examine the use, intuition and interpretation of the aspectual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Variation, Language Research, Monolingualism
Second Language Acquisition of Spanish Service Industry Requests in an Immersion Context
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Czerwionka, Lori; Cuza, Alejandro – Hispania, 2017
The current study examines English-speaking learners of Spanish and their pragmatic development of request forms during a six-week immersion program in Madrid, Spain. Elicited production and intuition data were analyzed, focusing on personal deictic orientation, directness evidenced by clause type, and the use of "por favor"…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics