Aspectual <i>se</i> and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use
While differences in the production and acceptability of aspectual inflectional morphology between Spanish–English heritage and monolingually raised speakers of Spanish have been argued to support incomplete acquisition approaches to heritage language acquisition, other approaches have argued that d...
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| author | Gabriel Martínez Vera Julio César López Otero Marina Y. Sokolova Adam Cleveland Megan Tzeitel Marshall Liliana Sánchez |
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| description | While differences in the production and acceptability of aspectual inflectional morphology between Spanish–English heritage and monolingually raised speakers of Spanish have been argued to support incomplete acquisition approaches to heritage language acquisition, other approaches have argued that differences in access (e.g., lexical access) to representations for receptive and productive purposes are at the core of some of the unique characteristics of heritage language data. We investigate these issues by focusing on the effects of lexical access, dominance, age of acquisition and patterns of language use in heritage Spanish–English bilinguals. We study aspectual <i>se</i> in Spanish, which yields telic interpretations, in expressions such as <i>María <b>se</b> comió la manzana</i> ‘María ate the apple (completely)’ and <i>Maria ate the apple</i> (where completion may not be reached). Our results indicate that <i>se</i> generates telic interpretations for the heritage and monolingually raised group with no group effect. Heritage speakers showed no English effects in terms of lexical access, age of acquisition, patterns of language use or dominance. This suggests that the heritage group did not differ from their monolingually raised counterparts and showed no evidence of incomplete acquisition of telicity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c08e07914d074c8ca59c5036d80d4af32023-11-19T11:35:59ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2023-08-018320110.3390/languages8030201Aspectual <i>se</i> and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language UseGabriel Martínez Vera0Julio César López Otero1Marina Y. Sokolova2Adam Cleveland3Megan Tzeitel Marshall4Liliana Sánchez5School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 5XA, UKDepartment of Hispanic Studies, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USADepartment of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, NorwayDepartment of Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USADepartment of Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USADepartment of Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USAWhile differences in the production and acceptability of aspectual inflectional morphology between Spanish–English heritage and monolingually raised speakers of Spanish have been argued to support incomplete acquisition approaches to heritage language acquisition, other approaches have argued that differences in access (e.g., lexical access) to representations for receptive and productive purposes are at the core of some of the unique characteristics of heritage language data. We investigate these issues by focusing on the effects of lexical access, dominance, age of acquisition and patterns of language use in heritage Spanish–English bilinguals. We study aspectual <i>se</i> in Spanish, which yields telic interpretations, in expressions such as <i>María <b>se</b> comió la manzana</i> ‘María ate the apple (completely)’ and <i>Maria ate the apple</i> (where completion may not be reached). Our results indicate that <i>se</i> generates telic interpretations for the heritage and monolingually raised group with no group effect. Heritage speakers showed no English effects in terms of lexical access, age of acquisition, patterns of language use or dominance. This suggests that the heritage group did not differ from their monolingually raised counterparts and showed no evidence of incomplete acquisition of telicity.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/201heritage Spanishtelicitylexical accessdominanceage of acquisition |
| spellingShingle | Gabriel Martínez Vera Julio César López Otero Marina Y. Sokolova Adam Cleveland Megan Tzeitel Marshall Liliana Sánchez Aspectual <i>se</i> and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use Languages heritage Spanish telicity lexical access dominance age of acquisition |
| title | Aspectual <i>se</i> and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use |
| title_full | Aspectual <i>se</i> and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use |
| title_fullStr | Aspectual <i>se</i> and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aspectual <i>se</i> and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use |
| title_short | Aspectual <i>se</i> and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use |
| title_sort | aspectual i se i and telicity in heritage spanish bilinguals the effects of lexical access dominance age of acquisition and patterns of language use |
| topic | heritage Spanish telicity lexical access dominance age of acquisition |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/3/201 |
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