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Early Language Experience Facilitates the Processing of Gender Agreement in Spanish Heritage Speakers
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Montrul, Silvina; Davidson, Justin; De La Fuente, Israel; Foote, Rebecca – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
We examined how age of acquisition in Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners interacts with implicitness vs. explicitness of tasks in gender processing of canonical and non-canonical ending nouns. Twenty-three Spanish native speakers, 29 heritage speakers, and 33 proficiency-matched L2 learners completed three on-line spoken word recognition…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Nouns, Spanish
The Role of Experience in the Acquisition and Production of Diminutives and Gender in Spanish: Evidence from L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers
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Montrul, Silvina; de la Fuente, Israel; Davidson, Justin; Foote, Rebecca – Second Language Research, 2013
This study examined whether type of early language experience provides advantages to heritage speakers over second language (L2) learners with morphology, and investigated knowledge of gender agreement and its interaction with diminutive formation. Diminutives are a hallmark of Child Directed Speech in early language development and a highly…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Learning Experience, Nouns, Spanish
Gender Agreement in Adult Second Language Learners and Spanish Heritage Speakers: The Effects of Age and Context of Acquisition
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Montrul, Silvina; Foote, Rebecca; Perpinan, Silvia – Language Learning, 2008
This study investigates knowledge of gender agreement in Spanish L2 learners and heritage speakers, who differ in age and context/mode of acquisition. On some current theoretical accounts, persistent difficulty with grammatical gender in adult L2 acquisition is due to age. These accounts predict that heritage speakers should be more accurate on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Acquisition, Age