Null Direct Object Clitics in Basque Spanish
A Study Across Four Generations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19544220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ager Gondra (0000-0002-8346-4489, University of Miami, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 349-384 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1939-0238 • E-ISSN: 2199-3386 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/shll-2021-2048 |
| OpenAlex | W3199488358 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
The null direct object clitic is described as one of the distinctive morphosyntactic features of Basque Spanish (e.g., compré el libro i , pero se me ha olvidado traer ø i ). However, no study to date has explored the variable usage of this form in cross-generational terms. The present inquiry aims to fill this void by analyzing and contrasting the results of two studies by four generations of Spanish-Basque bilinguals with the following age ranges: 85–96 (Generation 1), 55–75 (Generation 2), 35–45 (Generation 3), 18–25 (Generation 4). The education level of the participants was also taken into consideration. The first study consisted of an acceptability judgment task, in which the participants rated the acceptability of sentences with a null direct object using a 5-point Likert scale. The independent linguistic variables in this study were the semantic features [+/-definiteness] and [+/-specificity]. The acceptance rate of null direct object clitics was significantly higher among Generation 1 and 2 speakers than among those of Generation 3 and 4, with no effect of definiteness or specificity. In the second study, based on an elicitation task, older speakers (Generation 1 and 2) produced significantly more null direct object clitics than their younger counterparts (Generation 3 and 4). By contrasting the differential behavior of the participants across and within the same generation, it is shown that the generational effects observed are mainly due to the participants’ different levels of formal education
Clitic · Definiteness · Developmental psychology · Likert scale · Linguistics · Null hypothesis · Statistics · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
Towards Multilingual Education
What’s so incomplete about incomplete acquisition
Lexical variation and bilingual education in the Basque country
Object drop in L3 acquisition
Teaching through Basque
Learning Through the Minority
Bilingual Education in the Basque Autonomous Community
Assessment of Bilingual Education in the Basque Country
Basque, Spanish and Immigrant Minority Languages in Basque Schools
The standardization of the Basque language
Null objects in second language acquisition
The role of agreement in clitic-doubled constructions
Heritage speaker competence differences, language change, and input type
Basque acquisition planning
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