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    Early null and overt subjects in the Spanish of simultaneous English-Spanish bilinguals and Crosslinguistic Influence

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    Author
    Villa-García, Julio
    Suárez-Palma, Imanol
    Affiliation
    Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Arizona
    Issue Date
    2016
    Keywords
    early bilingualism
    null subjects
    overt subjects
    Crosslinguistic Influence
    pragmatic appropriateness
    
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    Publisher
    JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
    Citation
    Early null and overt subjects in the Spanish of simultaneous English-Spanish bilinguals and Crosslinguistic Influence 2016, 29 (2):350 Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics. Published under the auspices of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics
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    Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
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    © John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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    This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.
    Abstract
    This study assesses the scope of the Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI) hypothesis’ predictions with regard to early bilingual acquisition. To this end, we analyze longitudinal corpus data from four bilinguals attesting the acquisition of subjecthood (null versus overt; preverbal versus postverbal) and the pragmatic adequacy of early null and overt subjects in a null-subject language (i.e., Spanish) in combination with a language differing in its pro-drop parameter setting (i.e., English). Our results indicate that CLI barely affects the development of subjects in the null-subject language at the initial stages, namely at the outset of null and overt subjects, and in turn support the Separate Development Hypothesis. Our bilingual cohort patterns with their Spanish-acquiring monolingual peer in that both groups display comparable proportions of null subjects as well as acquisitional trajectories of null and overt subjects at the early stages of acquisition. Much like monolinguals, bilinguals begin to produce preverbal and postverbal subjects concurrently. The bilingual children and the monolingual child of this study actually produce extremely high rates of pragmatically appropriate covert and overt subjects, which are for the most part target-like from the start, thus pointing to the absence of CLI effects. In light of monolingual and bilingual data, the paper also revisits the hotly debated issue of the ‘no overt subject’ stage of Grinstead (1998, et seq.), its existence in child Spanish being questionable.
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    ISSN
    0213-2028
    2254-6774
    DOI
    10.1075/resla.29.2.01vil
    Version
    Final accepted manuscript
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    http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/resla.29.2.01vil
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    10.1075/resla.29.2.01vil
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