Can agreement be suppressed in second-language acquisition? Data from the Palenquero–Spanish interface
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11655636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Lipski (0000-0003-1110-2697, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 309-341 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Second language Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0267-6583 • E-ISSN: 1477-0326 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0267658317736106 |
| OpenAlex | W2765674867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 44 |
The present study examines the tradeoff between the on-line construction of modifier–noun gender agreement and verb–subject person/number agreement vs. the automatization and entrenchment of agreement, through the study of bilingual speakers of Spanish and the Afro-Colombian creole language Palenquero, whose lexicon is highly cognate with Spanish, but which lacks morphological agreement. The study focuses on first language (L1) Spanish speakers who are acquiring Palenquero as a second language (L2), since when switching from the modifier- and verb-agreeing L1 to the agreement-less L2, the persistence or absence of agreement in cognate items can be taken as an indirect measure of the cost differential between producing morphosyntactic agreement and suppressing the carryover of obligatory agreement to the L2. The results of experiments, which was conducted with bilingual Spanish–Palenquero speakers in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia, reveal the tenacity of Spanish gender agreement among L2 Palenquero speakers; heritage Palenquero speakers’ retention of gender agreement falls between traditional speakers and L2 speakers. Spanish verb agreement, on the other hand, shows relatively little carry-over to Palenquero, suggesting that the suppression of L1 agreement during L2 acquisition is not a simple all-or-nothing matter
Agreement · Cognate · Creole language · First language · Linguistics · Noun · Verb · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Cognitive Grammar
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Constructing Subject-Verb Agreement in Speech
Beyond the critical period
Nouns and verbs in the brain
Real-time processing of gender-marked articles by native and non-native Spanish speakers
Command of gender agreement in school-age Spanish-English Bilingual Children
What’s so incomplete about incomplete acquisition
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The acquisition of gender
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Intonation in Palenquero
Palenquero and Spanish
Studies in second language acquisition
Elicited imitation
Dominant language transfer in adult second language learners and heritage speakers
Morphological variability in the comprehension of agreement
The linguistics and psycholinguistics of agreement
Gender and gender agreement in bilingual native and non-native grammars
The time-course of inflexional morphological priming
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
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