Tense, aspect, and agreement in heritage Labrador Inuttitut

Sherkina-Lieber, Marina

doi:10.1075/lab.5.1.02she

Cited by 64 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 21 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…RM is an ambiguous term, which could refer (i) to situations where two interlocutors speak each their language and are still able to communicate because of receptive understanding of the language of their interlocutor or (ii) to attrited grammars in communities and individuals where only comprehension (to some degree) is possible (see e.g. Sherkina-Lieber, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How well can intelligibility of closely related languages in Europe be predicted by linguistic and non-linguistic variables?

Gooskens

Heuven

2019

LAB

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We measured mutual intelligibility of 16 closely related spoken languages in Europe. Intelligibility was determined for all 70 language combinations using the same uniform methodology (a cloze test). We analysed the results of 1833 listeners representing the mutual intelligibility between young, educated Europeans from the same 16 countries. Lexical, phonological, orthographic, morphological and syntactic distances were computed as linguistic variables. We also quantified non-linguistic variables (e.g. exposure, attitudes towards the test languages). Using stepwise regression analysis the importance of linguistic and non-linguistic predictors for the mutual intelligibility in the 70 language pairs was assessed. Exposure to the test language was the most important variable, overriding all other variables. Then, limiting the analysis to the prediction of inherent intelligibility, we analysed the results for a subset of listeners with no or little previous exposure to the test language. Linguistic distances, especially lexical distance, now explain a substantial part of the variance.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How well can intelligibility of closely related languages in Europe be predicted by linguistic and non-linguistic variables?

Gooskens

Heuven

2019

LAB

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…A third gap is that no previous study has explored HSs' productive and receptive knowledge of inalienable possession structures in Spanish. Given HSs' tendency to exhibit asymmetries across production and comprehension of the HL (e.g., Putnam & Sánchez 2013;Sherkina Lieber 2015;Perez-Cortes, Putnam & Sánchez, 2019), studying HSs' exhibited knowledge of inalienable possession across different modalities (productive and receptive tasks) represents an important opportunity to better understand the nature of variability in HL grammars.…”

Section: Previous Studies Of Spanish Hss and Inalienable Possessionmentioning

confidence: 99%

<i>Me, mi, my</i>: Innovation and variability in heritage speakers’ knowledge of inalienable possession

Giancaspro

Sánchez

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The present study investigates variability in heritage speakers' (HSs) knowledge of inalienable possession in Spanish (e.g., me rompí el brazo: 'I broke my arm'). By testing HSs' productive and receptive knowledge of this property, the study fills an important gap in the literature and, furthermore, explores whether differences in performance across productive and receptive modalities reflect grammatical innovation at the level of underlying representation. Thirty HSs (16 advanced proficiency, 14 intermediate proficiency) and 15 Spanish-dominant controls (SDCs) completed two experimental tasks, each testing both inalienable and alienable object contexts. Results from the Elicited Production Task show that the HSs exhibit significant variability. Unlike the SDCs, who almost categorically produce clitics to communicate the inalienability of objects, the two HS groups rely more heavily on possessive determiners, alternating frequently between the "target" form (Clitic + DefDet: me rompí el brazo) and three different " innovative" variants (e.g., NoClitic + PossDet: rompí mi brazo). Results from the Acceptability Judgment Task complicate this finding by revealing that the HSs, despite their productive variability, make all of the same within-group distinctions as the SDCs, suggesting that they retain systematic receptive knowledge of inalienable possession. To explain these seemingly contradictory patterns, as well as the strong effect of Spanish proficiency on HSs' performance across tasks, we suggest that HSs' variability is consistent with English to Spanish influence at the level of bilingual alignments, transient storage mechanisms proposed by Sánchez (2019) to account for gradient and variable performance in multiple bilingual contexts.

show abstract

Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers

Thane

2023

Lingua

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Tense, aspect, and agreement in heritage Labrador Inuttitut

Cited by 64 publications

References 21 publications

How well can intelligibility of closely related languages in Europe be predicted by linguistic and non-linguistic variables?

How well can intelligibility of closely related languages in Europe be predicted by linguistic and non-linguistic variables?

<i>Me, mi, my</i>: Innovation and variability in heritage speakers’ knowledge of inalienable possession

Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About