1. The role of aspect in the acquisition of ser and estar in locative contexts by English-speaking learners of Spanish
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Itziri Moreno Villamar, Rafael Marín, Silvia Perpiñán, Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 (STL), and Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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050101 languages & linguistics ,Linguistics and Language ,First language ,Events ,Castellà L2 ,050105 experimental psychology ,Language and Linguistics ,Education ,Verbs copulatius ,Construccions locatives ,Verbo ser ,Objects ,Spanish L2 ,Locative constructions ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Language proficiency ,Verbo estar ,Aprendizaje de idiomas ,Estar ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Temporal boundedness ,Verb ser ,Castellano L2 ,Verbos copulativos ,05 social sciences ,Language learning ,Locative case ,Copulative verbs ,[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Verb estar ,Verb to be ,Pictorial stimuli ,Dynamicity ,Ser ,Transfer of training ,Task analysis ,Copular verbs ,L2 Spanish ,Construcciones locativas ,Psychology ,Second language instruction ,Aprenentatge d'idiomes - Abstract
This study proposes an explanatory account for the developmental stages of the acquisition of ser and estar in locative constructions. We propose that this copular distribution is regulated by two aspectual features, dynamicity, and temporal boundedness. These features are crucial for the interpretation of nominals such as ‘dinner’, which refers to the physical food [-dynamic] with estar, and to the event of having a meal [+dynamic] with ser. In a Picture Matching Task and an Elicited Production Task, English-speaking learners of Spanish had to comprehend, locate, and distinguish objects from events by employing the two Spanish copulas. We questioned whether L2 learners would be sensitive to the aspectual nature of subjects and copulas in locative constructions. We found that participants had difficulties interpreting the feature [+dynamic] in nominal subjects, and propose that this is the last feature acquired, offering a revised developmental path of the acquisition of ser/estar building on Van Patten (1987). info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
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- 2020
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