Aspectual <i>se</i> and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use by Gabriel Martínez Vera, Julio César López Otero, Marina Y. Sokolova, Adam Cleveland, Megan Tzeitel Marshall, Liliana Sánchez

“…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. …”
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