Jennifer Austin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3761850 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jennifer Austin |
| NOMBRES | Jennifer |
| APELLIDO | Austin |
| FIRMA | AUSTIN J |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5193-4792 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive by child heritage and L2 learners
Few studies have investigated the developing grammars of school-aged children acquiring Spanish as a heritage or second language (L2) in dual language immersion programs. The present project evaluated 57 English-dominant Spanish heritage speakers (HS) and L2 learners enrolled in a dual language immersion school on their production and recognition of subjunctive mood in volitional clauses. Older children (12–14 year olds) produced more subjunctive…
The comprehension of clitic gender in child heritage and second language Spanish
Despite the growth of dual-language programs in the United States, few studies have examined how children acquire Spanish through immersion. This article compares how heritage speakers (HS) and English-fluent Spanish L2 learners (L2L) immersed in Spanish comprehend gender in direct object clitics, an area of Spanish grammar prone to bilingual effects. A total of 78 English-dominant children enrolled in a dual language school participated in the e…
Dominance, Language Experience, and Increased Interaction Effects on the Development of Pragmatic Knowledge in Heritage Bilingual Children
We investigate whether dominance, language experience, and increased interaction have an effect on the development of heritage bilingual children’s knowledge of the discourse-pragmatic constraints guiding null and overt subjects. A group of child heritage bilinguals ( n = 18, mean age = 5;5) and comparison groups of adults: Mexican Spanish monolinguals ( n = 15), heritage bilinguals in the United States ( n = 16), and English monolinguals in the …
Establishing upper bounds in English monolingual and Heritage Spanish-English bilingual language development
Quantificational elements such as some pose a challenge to young language learners, given their vague meaning and ability to take on an upper-bounded interpretation (relative to all) in certain contexts. The challenge is enhanced when a child is acquiring multiple languages that do not share a one-to-one mapping between their lexical entries with some. Such is the case with some in English and unos and algunos in Spanish. Indeed, Heritage Spanish…
Negation in L2 Acquisition and Beyond
This chapter provides an overview of generative research on the acquisition of negation by multilingual learners. While early research compared the development of negation in adult L2 learners with L1 children to assess L2 learners’ access to Universal Grammar), subsequent studies focused instead on how verbal feature specification influences L2 acquisition of the relative position of negation and verbs. More recently, research on L2 negation has…
Representation and processing in bilingual morphology
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The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures
Although monolingual children do not generally calculate the upper-bounded scalar implicature (SI) associated with ‘some’ without additional support, monolingual Spanish-speaking children have been reported to do so with algunos (‘some’), and further distinguish algunos from unos . Given documented cross-linguistic influence in interface phenomena in bilinguals, we asked whether young Spanish-English bilinguals calculate SIs with algunos , or if …
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11
We have divided the present volume into three major representative subfields, with four articles each: Syntax-Semantics, Morphosyntax
Palaeoenvironmental evidence for the impact of the crusades on the local and regional environment of medieval (13th–16th century) northern Latvia, eastern Baltic
This paper evaluates the impact of the crusades on the landscape and environment of northern Latvia between the 13th–16th centuries (medieval Livonia). The crusades replaced tribal societies in the eastern Baltic with a religious state (Ordenstaat) run by the military orders and their allies, accompanied by significant social, cultural and economic developments. These changes have previously received little consideration in palaeoenvironmental st…
Diary of a Bilingual School by Sharon Adelman Reyes, James Crawford (review)
Reviewed by: Diary of a Bilingual School by Sharon Adelman Reyes, James Crawford Jennifer Austin Adelman Reyes, Sharon, and Crawford, James. Diary of a Bilingual School. Portland, OR: Diversity Learning K12, 2012. Pp. 120. ISBN: 978-0-9847317-0-1. Diary of a Bilingual School is an ethnographic account of a year spent observing a second-grade classroom at the Inter-American Magnet School, a dual immersion program in Chicago where students from div…
Syntactic Development in the L1 of Spanish-English Bilingual Children
In this exploratory study of subtractive bilingualism in Spanish-English bilingual children, we present evidence that crosslinguistic influence has a selective effect on heritage first language loss. Differences in feature strength between English and Spanish in interrogative and negative polarity item (NPI) sentences seem to affect the development of these structures in Spanish more than that of negative sentences. While the children in this stu…
Markedness, input frequency, and the acquisition of inflection
Crosslinguistically, children begin producing the person and number features of personal pronouns in a similar order. This article explored whether the same is true of verbal agreement morphology and evaluated three potential explanatory hypotheses which could account for a universal sequence of the development of phi features: the existence of an innate feature geometry, statistical properties in the input, and the organization of verbal paradig…
The case-agreement hierarchy in acquisition
Rich inflection and the production of finite verbs in child language
Delay, interference and bilingual development
In this article, I examine the acquisition of verbal agreement morphology in a cross-sectional study of 20 bilingual children and 19 monolingual children acquiring Basque and Spanish. The results indicate that some of the bilingual children produce more root infinitives (RIs) in Basque than monolingual children do. I claim that this discrepancy is a consequence of different patterns of exposure to Basque that the children receive, rather than bei…
Continuity and development in the acquisition of inversion in yes/no questions
This paper examines two- to five-year-old children's knowledge of inversion in English yes/no questions through a new experimental study. It challenges the view that the syntax for inversion develops slowly in child English and tests the hypothesis that grammatical competence for inversion is present from the earliest testable ages of the child's sentence production. The experimental design is based on the premise that a valid test of this hypoth…
Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Testing
The case-agreement hierarchy in acquisition
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11
We have divided the present volume into three major representative subfields, with four articles each: Syntax-Semantics, Morphosyntax
Palaeoenvironmental evidence for the impact of the crusades on the local and regional environment of medieval (13th–16th century) northern Latvia, eastern Baltic
This paper evaluates the impact of the crusades on the landscape and environment of northern Latvia between the 13th–16th centuries (medieval Livonia). The crusades replaced tribal societies in the eastern Baltic with a religious state (Ordenstaat) run by the military orders and their allies, accompanied by significant social, cultural and economic developments. These changes have previously received little consideration in palaeoenvironmental st…
Syntactic Development in the L1 of Spanish-English Bilingual Children
In this exploratory study of subtractive bilingualism in Spanish-English bilingual children, we present evidence that crosslinguistic influence has a selective effect on heritage first language loss. Differences in feature strength between English and Spanish in interrogative and negative polarity item (NPI) sentences seem to affect the development of these structures in Spanish more than that of negative sentences. While the children in this stu…
Markedness, input frequency, and the acquisition of inflection
Crosslinguistically, children begin producing the person and number features of personal pronouns in a similar order. This article explored whether the same is true of verbal agreement morphology and evaluated three potential explanatory hypotheses which could account for a universal sequence of the development of phi features: the existence of an innate feature geometry, statistical properties in the input, and the organization of verbal paradig…
Rich inflection and the production of finite verbs in child language
Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Testing
Continuity and development in the acquisition of inversion in yes/no questions
This paper examines two- to five-year-old children's knowledge of inversion in English yes/no questions through a new experimental study. It challenges the view that the syntax for inversion develops slowly in child English and tests the hypothesis that grammatical competence for inversion is present from the earliest testable ages of the child's sentence production. The experimental design is based on the premise that a valid test of this hypoth…
Delay, interference and bilingual development
In this article, I examine the acquisition of verbal agreement morphology in a cross-sectional study of 20 bilingual children and 19 monolingual children acquiring Basque and Spanish. The results indicate that some of the bilingual children produce more root infinitives (RIs) in Basque than monolingual children do. I claim that this discrepancy is a consequence of different patterns of exposure to Basque that the children receive, rather than bei…
Rich inflection and the production of finite verbs in child language
Markedness, input frequency, and the acquisition of inflection
Crosslinguistically, children begin producing the person and number features of personal pronouns in a similar order. This article explored whether the same is true of verbal agreement morphology and evaluated three potential explanatory hypotheses which could account for a universal sequence of the development of phi features: the existence of an innate feature geometry, statistical properties in the input, and the organization of verbal paradig…
The case-agreement hierarchy in acquisition
Diary of a Bilingual School by Sharon Adelman Reyes, James Crawford (review)
Reviewed by: Diary of a Bilingual School by Sharon Adelman Reyes, James Crawford Jennifer Austin Adelman Reyes, Sharon, and Crawford, James. Diary of a Bilingual School. Portland, OR: Diversity Learning K12, 2012. Pp. 120. ISBN: 978-0-9847317-0-1. Diary of a Bilingual School is an ethnographic account of a year spent observing a second-grade classroom at the Inter-American Magnet School, a dual immersion program in Chicago where students from div…
Syntactic Development in the L1 of Spanish-English Bilingual Children
In this exploratory study of subtractive bilingualism in Spanish-English bilingual children, we present evidence that crosslinguistic influence has a selective effect on heritage first language loss. Differences in feature strength between English and Spanish in interrogative and negative polarity item (NPI) sentences seem to affect the development of these structures in Spanish more than that of negative sentences. While the children in this stu…
Palaeoenvironmental evidence for the impact of the crusades on the local and regional environment of medieval (13th–16th century) northern Latvia, eastern Baltic
This paper evaluates the impact of the crusades on the landscape and environment of northern Latvia between the 13th–16th centuries (medieval Livonia). The crusades replaced tribal societies in the eastern Baltic with a religious state (Ordenstaat) run by the military orders and their allies, accompanied by significant social, cultural and economic developments. These changes have previously received little consideration in palaeoenvironmental st…
The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures
Although monolingual children do not generally calculate the upper-bounded scalar implicature (SI) associated with ‘some’ without additional support, monolingual Spanish-speaking children have been reported to do so with algunos (‘some’), and further distinguish algunos from unos . Given documented cross-linguistic influence in interface phenomena in bilinguals, we asked whether young Spanish-English bilinguals calculate SIs with algunos , or if …
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11
We have divided the present volume into three major representative subfields, with four articles each: Syntax-Semantics, Morphosyntax
Representation and processing in bilingual morphology
Preview this article: Representation and processing in bilingual morphology, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/lab.00023.aus-1.gif
Negation in L2 Acquisition and Beyond
This chapter provides an overview of generative research on the acquisition of negation by multilingual learners. While early research compared the development of negation in adult L2 learners with L1 children to assess L2 learners’ access to Universal Grammar), subsequent studies focused instead on how verbal feature specification influences L2 acquisition of the relative position of negation and verbs. More recently, research on L2 negation has…
Establishing upper bounds in English monolingual and Heritage Spanish-English bilingual language development
Quantificational elements such as some pose a challenge to young language learners, given their vague meaning and ability to take on an upper-bounded interpretation (relative to all) in certain contexts. The challenge is enhanced when a child is acquiring multiple languages that do not share a one-to-one mapping between their lexical entries with some. Such is the case with some in English and unos and algunos in Spanish. Indeed, Heritage Spanish…
Dominance, Language Experience, and Increased Interaction Effects on the Development of Pragmatic Knowledge in Heritage Bilingual Children
We investigate whether dominance, language experience, and increased interaction have an effect on the development of heritage bilingual children’s knowledge of the discourse-pragmatic constraints guiding null and overt subjects. A group of child heritage bilinguals ( n = 18, mean age = 5;5) and comparison groups of adults: Mexican Spanish monolinguals ( n = 15), heritage bilinguals in the United States ( n = 16), and English monolinguals in the …
The comprehension of clitic gender in child heritage and second language Spanish
Despite the growth of dual-language programs in the United States, few studies have examined how children acquire Spanish through immersion. This article compares how heritage speakers (HS) and English-fluent Spanish L2 learners (L2L) immersed in Spanish comprehend gender in direct object clitics, an area of Spanish grammar prone to bilingual effects. A total of 78 English-dominant children enrolled in a dual language school participated in the e…
The acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive by child heritage and L2 learners
Few studies have investigated the developing grammars of school-aged children acquiring Spanish as a heritage or second language (L2) in dual language immersion programs. The present project evaluated 57 English-dominant Spanish heritage speakers (HS) and L2 learners enrolled in a dual language immersion school on their production and recognition of subjunctive mood in volitional clauses. Older children (12–14 year olds) produced more subjunctive…
Linguistics (13 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (11 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 obras) · Reading and Literacy Development (6 obras) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 obras) · Heritage language (5 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 obras)