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Focus at the syntax–discourse interface in L2 Spanish: Optionality and unaccusativity reconsidered
Second Language Research ( IF 2.889 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 , DOI: 10.1177/02676583211017604
Timothy Gupton 1 , Silvia Sánchez Calderón 2
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We examine the second language (L2) acquisition of variable Spanish word order by first language (L1) speakers of English via the acquisition of unaccusative and transitive predicates in various focus-related contexts. We employ two bimodal linguistic tasks: (1) acceptability judgment task (B-AJT) and (2) appropriateness preference task (B-APT). Both present contextualized prompts similar to previous studies, followed by response options with accompanying audio to control for intonation and pauses. Results suggest a number of key findings: (1) by the high intermediate level, L2ers acquire the relevant syntactic and syntax information structure interface competencies for both predicate types; (2) native speakers and L2 groups exhibit optionality, and only differ in nuanced ways; and (3) advanced learners show signs of acquiring syntactic and syntax–information structure competencies in numerous contexts, but display minor differences regarding optionality with corrective focus, an interface incorporating multiple interfaces (syntax–prosody pragmatics). Unlike the predictions of the Interface Hypothesis (IH), this subtle, non-native-like divergence is characterized by divergent knowledge of optionality similar to that found among native speakers. Attempting to understand more completely the development of native-speaker optionality, we also conduct a corpus study of child-directed Spanish from CHILDES and find that, although syntactic theory explains much of the data, it cannot account for all of the variability in the data. Results suggest that children are exposed to apparent optionality from the earliest stages.



中文翻译:

专注于 L2 西班牙语的句法 - 话语界面:重新考虑可选性和非指向性

我们通过在各种与焦点相关的上下文中获得非宾格和及物谓词来检查第二语言 (L2) 可变西班牙语词序的习得。我们采用两个双峰语言任务:(1)可接受性判断任务(B-AJT)和(2)适当性偏好任务(B-APT)。两者都提供与之前研究类似的上下文提示,然后是响应选项和伴随音频以控制语调和停顿。结果表明了一些关键发现:(1)到中高级水平,L2ers 获得了两种谓词类型的相关句法和句法信息结构接口能力;(2) 母语者和 L2 群体表现出选择性,仅在细微差别上有所不同;(3) 高级学习者在许多上下文中表现出获得句法和句法-信息结构能力的迹象,但在可选性和纠正焦点方面表现出细微的差异,一个包含多个界面的界面(句法-韵律语用学)。与界面假设 (IH) 的预测不同,这种微妙的、非母语的分歧的特点是对可选性的发散性知识类似于母语者中发现的知识。为了更全面地了解母语可选性的发展,我们还对来自 CHILDES 的面向儿童的西班牙语进行了语料库研究,发现虽然句法理论解释了大部分数据,但它无法解释数据中的所有可变性. 结果表明,儿童从最初阶段就面临明显的选择性。

更新日期:2021-06-03
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