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What does current generative theory have to say about the explicit-implicit debate?
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Eventive and Stative Passives and Copula Selection in Canadian and American Heritage Speaker Spanish.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Spanish captures the difference between eventive and stative passives via an
obligatory choice between two copula; verbal passives take the copula ser and
adjectival passives take the copula estar. In this study, we compare and contrast
US and Canadian heritage speakers of Spanish on their knowledge of
this difference in relation to copula choice in Spanish. The backgrounds of the
target groups ...
Object Drop in L2 Spanish, (Complex) Feature Reassembly and L1 Pre-emption: Comparing English, Chinese, European and Brazilian Portuguese Learners.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
The Acquisition of Clitics in L2 Spanish: Examining Restrictions on Clitic Solidarity.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This study examines the mental representation of clitic object pronouns in English L2 Spanish speakers of beginning, intermediate and advanced proficiencies. We present the results of a scalar grammaticality judgment task, which examines knowledge of clitic placement in both Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) verb constructions and non-ECM (finite and modal + infinitival) constructions. Our findings ...
The relationship between L3 transfer and structural similarity across development: Raising across an experiencer in Brazilian Portuguese.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Neurolinguistic measures of typological effects in multilingual transfer: introducing an ERP methodology
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-08-07)
This article has two main objectives. First, we offer an introduction to the subfield of generative third language (L3) acquisition. Concerned primarily with modeling initial stages transfer of morphosyntax, one goal of this program is to show how initial stages L3 data make significant contributions toward a better understanding of how the mind represents language and how (cognitive) economy ...