Aspectual se and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals

The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5900022
AutoresGabriel Martínez Vera (0000-0002-6805-2857, Newcastle University, autor de correspondencia), Julio César López Otero (0000-0001-6678-722X, University of Houston), Marina Y Sokolova (0000-0003-4270-333X, Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Adam Cleveland (University of Illinois Chicago), Mark T Marshall (0000-0001-9189-4174), Megan Tzeitel Marshall (University of Illinois Chicago), Liliana Sánchez (0000-0002-0991-5392, University of Illinois Chicago, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen8
Número3
Páginas201
Fecha de publicación2023-08-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages8030201
OpenAlexW4386256150
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas67

While differences in the production and acceptability of aspectual inflectional morphology between Spanish-English heritage and monolingually raised speakers of Spanish have been argued to support incomplete acquisition approaches to heritage language acquisition, other approaches have argued that differences in access (e.g., lexical access) to representations for receptive and productive purposes are at the core of some of the unique characteristics of heritage language data. We investigate these issues by focusing on the effects of lexical access, dominance, age of acquisition and patterns of language use in heritage Spanish-English bilinguals. We study aspectual se in Spanish, which yields telic interpretations, in expressions such as María se comió la manzana 'María ate the apple (completely)' and Maria ate the apple (where completion may not be reached). Our results indicate that se generates telic interpretations for the heritage and monolingually raised group with no group effect. Heritage speakers showed no English effects in terms of lexical access, age of acquisition, patterns of language use or dominance. This suggests that the heritage group did not differ from their monolingually raised counterparts and showed no evidence of incomplete acquisition of telicity

Age of Acquisition · Biology · Cognition · Heritage language · Linguistics · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation