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First person singular subject pronoun expression in Equatoguinean Spanish
Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 2021The 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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Community Norms and Lexical Frequency Shape U.S. Bilingual Children’s Subject Pronoun Expression
Heritage Language Journal, 2022Abstract 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.
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Spanish subject pronoun expression among Bube speakers in Equatorial Guinea
International Journal of Bilingualism, 2023Aims 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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Variable subject personal pronoun expression
2018This 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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Children’s Spanish subject pronoun expression
2016This 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 ...
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Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish: A Cross-Dialectal Perspective
Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 2017Nowadays, no one would question the fact that linguistic variation is universal. Indeed, any linguistic production offers information about biological (age, gender, physiological characteristics, h...
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Subject pronoun expression in bilinguals of two null subject languages
2010This paper examines subject pronoun expression in the speech of Spanish-Veneto bilinguals in central Mexico. Non-target subject expression has been found among adult language learners, heritage speakers, and speakers undergoing L1 attrition. Such patterns have been variously attributed to transfer/interference and loss of discourse-pragmatic ...
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Acquiring constraints on morphosyntactic variation: children's Spanish subject pronoun expression
Journal of Child Language, 2015ABSTRACTConstraints on linguistic variation are consistent across adult speakers, yielding probabilistic and systematic patterns. Yet, little is known about the development of such patterns during childhood. This study investigates Spanish subject pronoun expression in naturalistic data from 154 monolingual children in Mexico, divided into four age ...
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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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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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First person singular subject pronoun expression of young Spanish speakers from Quito, Ecuador
Spanish in Context, 2023Abstract 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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