de Prada Pérez, Ana (2018) Subject pronoun expression and language mode in bilingual Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 11 (2). pp. 303-336. ISSN 1939-0238
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Abstract
In research on Spanish subject pronoun expression, Spanish-English
bilinguals have been shown to present higher rates of expressed subjects in
code-switching than in monolingual Spanish mode, an outcome attributed to
perseveration from English or to convergence with English. In this study we
seek to arbitrate between these competing accounts. For that purpose, productions were elicited from bilinguals in an oral elicitation task, manipulating
perseveration source and target structures in three modes: monolingual
Spanish, language switching, and code-switching. Participants demonstrated
the anticipated sensitivity to perseveration across conditions and effects of
bilingual mode in the code-switching condition, with greater expressed pronoun use with omitted subject primes. These results allow us to isolate structural perseveration from bilingual effects and to ascribe the source of increased
use of expressed pronominal subjects in bilingual Spanish to dual language
activation or convergence.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | subject expression; structural persistence; syntactic perseveration; priming; code-switching; bilingual mode; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > Spanish |
Item ID: | 13033 |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/shll-2018-0010 |
Depositing User: | Ana DePrada Perez |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2020 17:08 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics |
Publisher: | De Gruyter Open |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/13033 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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