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Language Variation in Mandarin as a Heritage Language: Subject Personal Pronouns

Heritage Language Journal, 2021
Abstract Because of limited language input, different dominant languages, and learners’ differing backgrounds, the acquisition of heritage languages is distinguished from the acquisition of L1 and L2. Few studies of Chinese as a Heritage Language (CHL) have explored whether students can acquire native-like sociolinguistic competence and language ...
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Teacher talk and Spanish subject personal pronouns

Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 2018
ABSTRACTThis study examines whether second-language instructors of Spanish overuse subject personal pronouns (SPPs) to facilitate communication with their English-speaking students, which would be a form of teacher talk. Ten native Spanish-speaking language instructors were recorded in two speech contexts: teaching a third-semester Spanish class to ...
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First-Person Plural Subject Pronoun Expression in Mexican Spanish Spoken in Georgia

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2021
AbstractVariationist research on subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Spanish typically incorporates all grammatical persons/numbers into the same analysis, with important exceptions such as studies focusing exclusively on first-person singular (e.g., Travis, Catherine E. 2005. The yo-yo effect: Priming in subject expression in Colombian Spanish.
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The Use of the Personal Pronoun Subject in Post-position in Fourteenth Century French

Romania, 1971
Offord Malcolm H. The Use of the Personal Pronoun Subject in Post-position in Fourteenth Century French. In: Romania, tome 92 n°365, 1971. pp. 37-64.
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Variable subject personal pronoun expression

2018
This chapter explores the linguistic conditioning on variable subject personal pronoun expression (SPE). Tendencies in Barranquilla and New York are largely congruent with those throughout the Hispanic World, with Subject Person & Number and Switch Reference exerting the strongest pressures. The effects of verb semantics are particularly meaningful
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Spanish subject pronoun usage and verb semantics revisited: First and second person singular subject pronouns and focusing of attention in spoken Peninsular Spanish

Journal of Pragmatics, 2011
Abstract A considerable body of literature exists on the use of subject pronouns in Spanish. However, the influence of semantic and pragmatic factors on subject pronoun usage has not been examined thoroughly enough. This paper deals with the frequency and patterns of usage of first and second person singular subject pronouns with 14 different verbs ...
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A variationist account of Puerto Rican subject personal pronoun expression

2017
This chapter discusses new light on subject expression in Puerto Rican Spanish (PRSp) through the contribution of data from an area outside the often-studied metropolitan area of San Juan. With regard to subject expression, much work has been done on subject forms, with the bulk of work focused on the appearance of overt subject personal pronouns (SPPs)
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The Role of Lexical Frequency in Syntactic Variability: Variable Subject Personal Pronoun Expression in Spanish

Language, 2012
Much recent work argues that lexical frequency plays a central explanatory role in linguistic theory, but the status, predicted effects, and methodological treatment of frequency are controversial, especially so in the less-investigated area of syntactic variation.
Daniel Erker, Gregory R. Guy
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On the Radical Difference between the Subject Personal Pronouns in Written and Spoken European French

2003
This article is concerned with the investigation of variation, completed change, and change in progress, which are leading to a radical difference between everyday spoken European French and the standard written variety. We will focus on one small part of French grammar -- the subject pronouns -- and detail how grammatical and semantic change is ...
Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, Linda R. Waugh
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First person singular subject pronoun expression of young Spanish speakers from Quito, Ecuador

Spanish in Context, 2023
Abstract This variationist study analyzes the first-person subject pronoun expression (SPE) of speakers from Quito, Ecuador. To date, this morphosyntactic variable has not been explored in this Andean variety of Spanish. The data consists of 20 sociolinguistic interviews.
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