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Maintenance of Spanish subject pronoun expression patterns among bilingual children of farmworkers in Washington/Montana

Spanish in Context, 2016
It has been suggested that contact between Spanish and English results in an increased rate of Spanish subject pronouns and a desensitization to factors that constrain pronoun usage. Yet, evidence for such contact-induced change has been found in some U.S. communities, but not others.
Naomi Shin
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The persistence of expression: Clusivity, partial co-reference, and socioeconomic differentiation of first person plural subject pronoun expression in Spanish

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2019
AbstractThis study revisits variable subject pronoun expression in Spanish, bringing to bear insights from cross-linguistic patterns of person-number systems. Based on 2259 tokens from two corpora of Mexican Spanish representing distinct social classes, the study focuses solely on first person plural (1pl) subject pronouns, revealing unique aspects of ...
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Testing English influence on first person singular “yo” subject pronoun expression in Sonoran Spanish

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2018
Abstract The present investigation seeks to explore the impact that contact with English has on the variation of first person singular “yo” subject pronoun expression in Sonoran Spanish by analyzing sociolinguistic interviews from sixteen monolinguals from Sonora, Mexico and sixteen bilinguals from Arizona, United States ...
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Bilingualism effects in Basque Subject Pronoun Expression

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2018
AbstractTheInterface Hypothesis(IH) (Sorace, 2011;Sorace & Filiaci, 2006;Sorace & Serratrice, 2009) proposes that structures involving an interface between syntax and other modules are less likely to be fully acquired. Whereas some studies have found evidence in favor of theIH(Michnowicz, 2015), others have reported that adult 2L1 and L2 ...
Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, Lorena Sainzmaza-Lecanda   +1 more
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Null/ overt subject pronoun expression in Tunisian Arabic

Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics, 2023
The present article examines the overall frequency of overt subject pronouns in cases where their use is nonobligatory in Tunisian Arabic, the factors that condition their usage in such contexts, implication for word order, and finally the effect of contact with French on subject pronoun expression.
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Variable subject pronoun expression in Cabo-Verdean Creole

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2021
AbstractThe Cabo-Verdean Creole (CVC) subject domain has clitic and tonic pronouns that often amalgamate in double subject pronoun constructions; the possibility of a zero-subject and the formal category underlying subject clitics are disputed (Baptista 1995,2002;Pratas 2004).
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First person singular subject pronoun expression in Equatoguinean Spanish

Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 2021
The present study examines the linguistic and social factors that affect first person singular subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Equatoguinean Spanish. It also questions whether first person singular SPE in Equatoguinean Spanish supports or contradicts the tenets of the interface hypothesis.
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Spanish subject pronoun expression among Bube speakers in Equatorial Guinea

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2023
Aims and Objectives: Spanish subject pronoun expression (SPE) among Bube speakers in Equatorial Guinea has hardly been examined. Thus, the paper aims to (a) examine the SPE rate (b) and the linguistic and social predictors of SPE in this variety ...
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Community Norms and Lexical Frequency Shape U.S. Bilingual Children’s Subject Pronoun Expression

Heritage Language Journal, 2022
Abstract This study explores variable Spanish subject pronoun expression (e.g., yo veo ~ veo) in Spanish-English speaking children in different regions of the United States (U.S.): Los Angeles (LA), California, and the Tri-Cities area of the state of Washington. We also compare the U.S.
Sarah Lease, Naomi L. Shin, Emily Bird-Brown   +2 more
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Children’s Spanish subject pronoun expression

2016
This study explores children’s acquisition of structured morphosyntactic variation by examining Spanish subject pronoun expression. Analyses of 5,923 verbs produced by 154 Mexican children, ages 6 to 16, show that the variables that most strongly constrain the oldest children’s pronoun usage – Person, Reference, Priming – are acquired first during ...
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