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TY - JOUR
T1 - Discourse-sensitive clitic-doubled dislocations in heritage Spanish
AU - Leal Méndez, Tania
AU - Rothman, Jason
AU - Slabakova, Roumyana
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2014 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/2/1
Y1 - 2015/2/1
N2 - This experimental study tests the predictions of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace, 2011, 2012) using two constructions whose appropriateness depends on monitoring discourse information: Clitic Left Dislocation and Fronted Focus. Clitic Left Dislocation relates a dislocated and clitic-doubled object to an antecedent activated in previous discourse, while Fronted Focus does not relate the fronted constituent to a discourse antecedent. The Interface Hypothesis argues that speakers in language contact situations experience difficulties when they have to integrate syntactic with discourse information. We tested four groups of native speakers on these constructions: Spanish monolinguals, bilinguals with more than 7 years residence in the US, intermediate and advanced proficiency heritage speakers. Our findings suggest that attrition has not set in the adult L2 bilingual speakers, and that the heritage speakers perform similarly to the monolingual and the adult sequential bilingual natives.
AB - This experimental study tests the predictions of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace, 2011, 2012) using two constructions whose appropriateness depends on monitoring discourse information: Clitic Left Dislocation and Fronted Focus. Clitic Left Dislocation relates a dislocated and clitic-doubled object to an antecedent activated in previous discourse, while Fronted Focus does not relate the fronted constituent to a discourse antecedent. The Interface Hypothesis argues that speakers in language contact situations experience difficulties when they have to integrate syntactic with discourse information. We tested four groups of native speakers on these constructions: Spanish monolinguals, bilinguals with more than 7 years residence in the US, intermediate and advanced proficiency heritage speakers. Our findings suggest that attrition has not set in the adult L2 bilingual speakers, and that the heritage speakers perform similarly to the monolingual and the adult sequential bilingual natives.
KW - Clitics
KW - Heritage speakers
KW - Interface hypothesis
KW - Spanish
KW - Syntax-discourse
U2 - 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.01.002
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84923934031
VL - 155
SP - 85
EP - 97
JO - Lingua
JF - Lingua
SN - 0024-3841
ER -