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Gudmestad, Aarnes; Clay, Rebecca – Hispania, 2019
This study examines the variable occurrence of preposition duplication in contexts of coordination in Spanish (e.g., "Fui con mi madre y (con) mi padre"). We build on previous research on this variable morphosyntactic phenomenon (namely, prepositions in contexts of coordination) by expanding the type of data and the independent variables…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Form Classes (Languages), Spanish, Morphology (Languages)
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Mehrabi, Marzieh; Rahmatian, Rouhollah; Safa, Parivash; Armiun, Novid – International Education Studies, 2014
This paper analyzes the spoken corpus of thirty Iranian learners of French at four levels (A1, A2, B1 and B2). The data were collected in a pseudo-longitudinal manner in semi-directed interviews with half closed and open questions to analyze the learners' syntactic errors (omission, addition, substitution and displacement). The most frequent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Algady, Dola – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The new developments in syntactic theory under Minimalism reconsiders the relation between the language faculty and general cognitive systems whereby language acquisition is accomplished by the interaction of Chomsky (2005)'s three factors: (F1) a minimally specified UG (Genetic endowment); (F2) Primary Linguistic Data (PLD), i.e., input; and (F3)…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure, Interlanguage