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T1 Linguistic theory and the analysis of minority languages: native, immigrant and heritage Spanish
A1 Liceras, Juana M.
A1 Senn, Cristina
K1 Heritage speakers
K1 Immigrant speakers
K1 Late contact bilinguals
K1 Early contact bilinguals
K1 Grammatical competence
K1 Processing abilities
K1 Ambiguity resolution
K1 Resumptive pronouns
K1 Near native speaker
K1 Acceptability Judgments
K1 Language attrition
K1 Incomplete acquisition
K1 Interlinguistic influence
K1 Minority language
AB In this paper we aim to contribute to the emerging field of heritagestudies by investigating whether Spanish heritage speakers inCanada, namely the second or subsequent generation of Spanishspeakers who grew up as English-Spanish bilinguals, differ fromnative Spanish speakers (those who have always lived in a Spanishspeakingcountry) and from immigrant Spanish speakers (those whoimmigrated to Canada as adults) with respect to their grammaticalcompetence and to their processing strategies. Taking as a point ofdeparture recent proposals from linguistic theory, we provide adescription of Spanish restrictive relative clauses with so-calledresumptive pronouns (Es una mujer que nunca LA vimos llorar) inorder to determine whether and how our three groups of speakersdiffer in terms of the grammatical intuitions and processing resourcesthey display when confronted with this type of constructions. Wediscuss to what extent language attrition, influence from English (inthe case of both immigrant and heritage speakers), or incompleteacquisition (in the case of heritage speakers) may be behind thecharacteristics of the immigrant and the heritage speakers’ linguisticbehaviour. We argue that sophisticated experimental tasks provide abetter tool than global proficiency tests to compare these threegroups of speakers. The ultimate aim of this study is to provide aframework for analyzing the status of the minority languages spokenby immigrant communities.
PB Universidad de Alcalá. Servicio de Publicaciones
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11244
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11244
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 29-abr-2024