Testing the Interface Hypothesis: Heritage Speakers' Perception and Production of Spanish Subject Position with Unergative and Unaccusative Verbs

Autor/in	Gondra, Ager
Titel	Testing the Interface Hypothesis: Heritage Speakers' Perception and Production of Spanish Subject Position with Unergative and Unaccusative Verbs
Quelle	In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25 (2022) 5, S.1730-1764 (35 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gondra, Ager)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-0050
DOI	10.1080/13670050.2020.1799322
Schlagwörter	Verbs; Spanish; Linguistic Theory; Task Analysis; Decision Making; Semantics; Syntax; Transfer of Training; Heritage Education; Native Language; Bilingualism; Pragmatics; Hypothesis Testing; Language Variation; Second Language Learning; Grammar; Teaching Methods; Second Language Instruction; Native Language Instruction; Intervention; Comparative Analysis; English (Second Language); Language Dominance; Undergraduate Students; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spanisch; Linguistische Theorie; Aufgabenanalyse; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Semantik; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Bilingualismus; Pragmalinguistik; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Sprachenvielfalt; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Grammatik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Native language education; Muttersprachlicher Unterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachliche Dominanz
Abstract	The Interface Hypothesis proposes that the pragmatic-discursive interface with syntax is more vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence than the syntactic-semantic interface [Tsimpli, Ianthi, and Antonella Sorace. 2006. "Differentiating Interfaces: L2 Performance in Syntax- Semantics and Syntax-Discourse Phenomena." In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston Conference on Language Development, edited by D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, and C. Zaller, 653-664. Somerville: Cascadilla Press]. The present study tests this hypothesis by analyzing the contrast between preverbal and postverbal subject position with unergative and unaccusative verbs in the Spanish of heritage language (HL) speakers. The results of a grammaticality judgment task and a short-answer task suggest that the syntactic-semantic interface is as vulnerable to the influence of English as the pragmatic-discursive interface for Spanish HL speakers. This inquiry also considers how formal instruction targeting the flexibility of word order in Spanish and its effect on the discursive context might impact the acquisition of subject position distinction with these verbs among HL learners of Spanish. Based upon the negligible effects of a pedagogical intervention conducted in an intermediate-level Spanish HL course in which the present participants were enrolled, both the syntactic-semantic interface and the pragmatic-discursive interface appeared impervious to formal instruction targeting flexible word order. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01