The current study investigates Spanish children's variation between the standard and non-standard forms for second person singular preterit –s (caiste ~ caístes). All second person singular preterit forms were extracted from the spontaneous speech of 78 children in Spain and analyzed for the effects of age, language contact setting, and lexical frequency. Results show that children in contact with Galician and Catalan produce more non-standard than children in non-contact areas like Madrid. Meanwhile, low-frequency verbs (e.g., pillaste) are more likely to occur with the non-standard –s than high-frequency verbs (e.g., fuiste). However, age is not a significant predictor of children's 2sg preterit production. These preliminary findings demonstrate that Spanish children do have the non-standard -s in their speech, and that their 2sg preterit forms are significantly conditioned by language contact and lexical frequency.

目前的研究调查了西班牙儿童在标准和非标准形式之间的第二人称单数 preterit –s ( caiste ~ caístes ) 的变化。从西班牙 78 名儿童的自发言语中提取了所有第二人称单数先验形式，并分析了年龄、语言接触设置和词汇频率的影响。结果表明，与加利西亚语和加泰罗尼亚语接触的儿童比马德里等非接触地区的儿童产生更多的非标准。同时，低频动词（例如，pillaste）比高频动词（例如，fuiste）更可能出现在非标准 -s 中。）。然而，年龄并不是儿童 2sg preterit 生产的重要预测因素。这些初步调查结果表明，西班牙儿童在他们的言语中确实有非标准 -s，并且他们的 2sg 前置形式受到语言接触和词汇频率的显着影响。