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Acquisition at the interfaces in L1 Spanish: L2 English – From corpus
data to experimental data
Cristóbal Lozano 1 and Amaya Mendikoetxea 2
1 2
Universidad de Granada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
We show how corpus and experimental data can be combined to better
understand L2 acquisition at the interfaces by examining L2 inversion
(SV/VS orders).
Previous corpus data reveal that the three interface constraints operating
in native English guide the production of SV/VS in L1 Spa/Ital-L2 Eng
(Lozano & Mendikoetxea 2008, 2010). Subjects are produced postverbally
only with unaccusative verbs [syntax-discourse interface] provided they are
focus [syntax-discourse] and heavy [syntax-phonology]. Crucially, learners
show syntactic deficits with the preverbal constituent (XP) by inserting a
null expletive (Ø-V-S) [1] or overusing it as the generic expletive (it-V-S)
[2], while the production of grammatical there is low (there-V-S) [3].
In this paper, we seek to experimentally (dis)confirm the corpus data. L1
Spanish-L2 English learners at all proficiency levels (N=322) participated in
an online experiment. They judged, on a five-point Likert scale, the
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