Imperatives in Heritage Spanish
Lexical Access and Lexical Frequency Effects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5901474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julio César López Otero (0000-0001-6678-722X, University of Houston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 218 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages8030218 |
| OpenAlex | W4386813956 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 44 |
Along with declaratives and interrogatives, imperatives are one of the three major clause types of human language. In Spanish, imperative verb forms present poor morphology, yet complex syntax. The present study examines the acquisition of (morpho)syntactic properties of imperatives in Spanish among English-speaking heritage speakers of Spanish. With the use of production and acceptability judgment tasks, this study investigates the acquisition of verb morphology and clitic placement in canonical and negative imperatives. The results indicate that the acquisition of Spanish imperatives among heritage speakers is shaped by the heritage speakers' productive vocabulary knowledge, lexical frequency and syntactic complexity. Indeed, most of the variability in their knowledge was found in their production of negative imperatives: heritage speakers show a rather stable receptive grammatical knowledge while their production shows signs of variability modulated by the heritage speakers' productive vocabulary knowledge and by the lexical frequency of the verb featured in the test items
Heritage language · Linguistics · Production (economics · Root (linguistics · Syntax · Verb · Vocabulary · Computer Science · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |