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Complex Knowledge of Complex Sentences: A Review of Passives in Heritage Spanish

Data publikacji: 2024

Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 24 (2024), Tom 24, numer 3, s. 355-366

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.027.20982

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Silvina Montrul
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois,, Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6011-5959 Orcid
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Complex Knowledge of Complex Sentences: A Review of Passives in Heritage Spanish

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Passive sentences in Spanish come in different varieties and present complexity at the syntactic, semantic and morphological level. This study reviews research showing that child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish develop basic knowledge of these complex sentences early on, even when these are not very frequent in spoken input, but they may be less efficient than baseline speakers interpreting different word orders, gender agreement, the semantics of the by-phrase, and the aspectual interpretation of the copulas ser and estar. Accuracy with the production and comprehension of passives is related to proficiency in the heritage language, and literacy experience enhances the acquisition of all the complexities of verbal passives in Spanish.

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Informacje: Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 24 (2024), Tom 24, numer 3, s. 355-366

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6011-5959

Silvina Montrul
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois,, Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6011-5959 Orcid
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois,, Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki

Publikacja: 2024

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

Licencja: CC BY  ikona licencji

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Silvina Montrul is the Marjorie Roberts Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and directs the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab. She is co-editor of the journal “Second Language Research” and has authored over 100 articles and book chapters as well as several books, including The Acquisition of Spanish (2004), Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism (2008), El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante (2013), The Acquisition of Heritage Languages (2016), Second Language Acquisition: Introducing Intervention Research (2022), with Tania Ionin. Her book Native Speakers Interrupted (2022) has received the 2024 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistic Society of America.

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