Degrees of subjunctive vitality among monolingual speakers of Peninsular and Argentinian Spanish

Gallego, Muriel; Alonso-Marks, Emilia

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“…To our knowledge there is little evidence for dialectal variety concerning mood in the contexts under investigation here. 5 The only relevant reference we found is from Gallego and Alonso-Marks (2014), who report that monolingual Spanish speakers from Toledo, Spain, used obligatory subjunctive (when giving advice) in oral production more often than speakers in an age-matched group in Rosario, Argentina, who sometimes replaced the subjunctive with other grammatical constructions but never with the indicative. The only Argentinian speaker in the present study did not display a different pattern from the other participants.…”

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Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Linguistic patterns in the judgment and production of mood

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Sleeman

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Purpose: This study investigates heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands regarding their knowledge of Spanish mood. Previous research has demonstrated that heritage speakers of Spanish in the US have problems with mood, especially subjunctive mood and particularly in contexts where choice of mood is variable and depends on semantic and pragmatic factors. Moreover, heritage speakers are often reported to experience fewer problems with oral production tasks tapping into implicit knowledge than with judgment tasks targeting metalinguistic knowledge. This study aims to investigate whether these patterns can be confirmed for heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands. Methodology: In all, 17 heritage speakers from the Netherlands and 18 monolingual speakers of Spanish completed a contextualized elicited production task. Each item contained a context targeting either indicative or subjunctive mood. Below each context followed the beginning of a sentence which the participants were instructed to complete. Both obligatory and variable uses of mood were included. The results were compared to findings from a contextualized scalar acceptability judgment task described in an earlier study using the same conditions and the same participants. Data and analysis: All responses were coded as felicitous or infelicitous given the accompanying context and were analyzed using mixed effects modeling. The results demonstrate that the heritage speakers are less accurate in their choice of mood than monolingual speakers, particularly on subjunctive mood and in variable contexts. Furthermore, heritage speakers deviated more from the monolingual patterns in the production task than in the judgment task. Findings/conclusion: These results confirm several patterns attested for heritage speakers of Spanish in the US, namely the increased vulnerability of subjunctive mood and in contexts where mood is not obligatorily selected. However, in contrast to previous literature, this study reports better performance on a metalinguistic judgment task than on an oral production task. This finding is attributed to differences in societal circumstances between both heritage speaker populations. Implications of the research: This study confirms the heterogeneity of heritage speakers as a population and emphasizes the importance of taking societal circumstances into consideration.

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Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Linguistic patterns in the judgment and production of mood

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Sleeman

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…Specifically, advanced HS tended to be more accurate than their intermediate and low-proficiency counterparts, who displayed more optionality in their responses. While these effects were observed across experimental tasks, they were more prominent in the sentence-completion exercise, implying that higher proficiency in the heritage language facilitates the selection and retrieval of lexical 11 Sociolinguistic research focused on the interpretation and production of these sentences in Spanish monolinguals report that there is a percentage of this population who tends to hypercorrect subjunctive forms in disjoint reference contexts by overextending infinitival forms (Gallego and Alonso-Marchs 2014), although the opposite trend, that is, the overuse of subjunctive in similar contexts, has also been documented (Morales 1999;Serrano 2004).…”

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Differential Access: Asymmetries in Accessing Features and Building Representations in Heritage Language Grammars

2019

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In this article, we propose that elements of heritage language grammars—both in the form of axiomatic features and larger combined representational units—are not easily lost over the course of the lifespan. This view contrasts with alternative explanations for the steady-state representation of these grammars that suggest truncated acquisition or erosion are the primary culprits of perceived language loss. In production and comprehension processes for heritage bilinguals, particular elements are more difficult to access than others, leading to differential ways to access representations and feature values. To illustrate and support this hypothesis, we build on previous work by examining the interpretation and use of obligatory mood selection in Spanish desiderative constructions in three groups of heritage speakers with different levels of language proficiency.

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“…Some of those factors might impact subjunctive acquisition and determine that subjunctive forms go unnoticed or are not accurately processed. First, its low frequency (Biber et al, 2006;Collentine, 2010) Marks, 2014aMarks, , 2014bMarks, , 2015Lastra & Butragueño, 2012;Silva-Corvalán, 1994.…”

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L2 Spanish morphosyntactic development through collaborative writing: An analysis of mood production, text length and syntactic complexity

Gallego

2019

Language Teaching Research

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This study discusses the impact of interactionist output-oriented approaches, specifically, the effects of collaborative text reconstruction on subjunctive recognition and production in the written modality by English-dominant Spanish second-language learners. It also examines whether students’ text length and text complexity increase after treatment. A total of 104 fifth-semester Spanish learners participated in the study and were assigned to three conditions: control ( n = 36), dictogloss ( n = 33) and dictogloss plus explicit instruction ( n = 35). In order to measure target form recognition and production as well as text quality, participants completed a pre-, post- and delayed-post-test that included a guided written task and a recognition task. Results indicated that participants in both treatment groups increased their production of the subjunctive mood in the written modality in expected contexts at similar rates, which was also maintained over time. Participants also increased recognition rates, irrespective of group, pointing to a lack of relationship between this type of collaborative text reconstruction and subjunctive recognition. Lastly, an effect of group and time was also observed for text length and syntactic complexity, as participants in the treatment groups produced significantly longer texts, as well as a higher number of complement clauses.

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Degrees of subjunctive vitality among monolingual speakers of Peninsular and Argentinian Spanish

Cited by 8 publications

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Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Linguistic patterns in the judgment and production of mood

Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Linguistic patterns in the judgment and production of mood

Differential Access: Asymmetries in Accessing Features and Building Representations in Heritage Language Grammars

L2 Spanish morphosyntactic development through collaborative writing: An analysis of mood production, text length and syntactic complexity

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