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Differences in use without deficiencies in competence: passives in the Turkish and German of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany.
Bayram, Fatih; Rothman, Jason; Iverson, Michael; Miller, David; Puig Mayenco, Eloi; Kupisch, Tanja; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)Determining how and why adult outcomes of heritage speaker (HS) bilingualism differ from monolinguals is difficult because it requires the reconstruction of developmental paths from end-state data. In an effort to address this issue, we examine HSs of Turkish in Germany at an early age of development (10-15 years old, n=22), as well as age-matched monolingual controls in Turkey (n=20) and Germany ... -
Eventive and Stative Passives and Copula Selection in Canadian and American Heritage Speaker Spanish.
Valenzuela, Elena; Iverson, Michael; Rothman, Jason; Borg, Kristina; Pascual y Cabo, Diego; Pinto, Manuela (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.
Iverson, Michael; Rothman, Jason (Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015) -
Older age of onset in child L2 acquisition can be facilitative: evidence from the acquisition of English passives by Spanish natives.
Rothman, Jason; Long, Drew; Iverson, Michael; Judy, Tiffany; Lingwall, Anne; Chakravarty, Tushar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-02-26)We report a longitudinal comprehension study of (long) passive constructions in two native-Spanish child groups differing by age of initial exposure to L2 English (young group: 3;0–4;0; older group: 6;0–7;0), where amount of input, L2 exposure environment, and socioeconomic status are controlled. Data from a forced-choice task show that both groups comprehend active sentences, not passives, initially ...