Clitic-doubled left dislocation and focus fronting in L2 Spanish: A case of successful acquisition at the syntax-discourse interface

This experimental study tests the Interface Hypothesis by looking into processes at the syntaxdiscourse interface, teasing apart acquisition of syntactic, semantic and discourse knowledge. Adopting Lopez's (2009) pragmatic features [± a(naphor)] and [±c(ontrast)], which in combination account f...

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Published in:	Second language research Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 319 - 343
Main Authors:	Slabakova, Roumyana, Kempchinsky, Paula, Rothman, Jason
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England SAGE Publications Ltd 01.07.2012 SAGE Publications Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:	Adults Anaphora Antecedents Argentina Bilingualism Chile Clitics Cognition & reasoning Cognitive linguistics Cognitive Psychology Colombia Comprehension Costa Rica Cuba Discourse Discourse anaphora English English as a second language learning Executive Function Focus Foreign Countries Grammar Grammatical constructions Hypotheses Inhibition Knowledge Language Language acquisition Language Proficiency Language Research Linguistic Performance Linguistic Theory Linguistics Mexico Morphemes Native languages Native Speakers Pragmatics Psycholinguistics Resistance (Psychology) Resource Allocation Second Language Learning Second Language Learning Theories Semantics Semiotics Spain Spanish Spanish as a Second Language Learning Spanish Speaking Syntactical antecedents Syntactics Syntax Syntax Discourse Relationship Syntax Semantics Relationship Teasing Tests Venezuela Colombia Cuba Venezuela Argentina Mexico Chile Costa Rica Spain Canada United States > US left dislocation syntax–discourse interface clitics topicalization syntax–semantics interface Spanish information structure clitic left dislocation focus fronting
ISSN:	0267-6583, 1477-0326
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