Parental Concern in Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children in Adverse Social Conditions

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Christian Peñaloza ◽  
Alejandra Auza ◽  
Chiharu Murata
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Parental Concern ◽  
Spanish Speaking

Connectionist modelling of Aspect acquisition in Italian L2

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 4-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiana Rosi
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Self Organizing Maps ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Cognitive Principles ◽  
Unsupervised Neural Networks

Within the long tradition of second language acquisition (SLA) research on the development of the category of Aspect (Dietrich et al. 1995; Giacalone Ramat 2002), the present study compares the acquisitional pattern observed in learners of Italian L2 and those obtained by connectionist simulations, namely unsupervised neural networks, Self Organizing Maps, SOMs (Kohonen 2001). The research tests empirically whether SOMs can display the emergence of Aspect in the interlanguage produced by German-speaking and Spanish-speaking L2 learners and the interaction between Aspect, Actionality and Grounding in this development. The convergence between connectionist modelling and learners’ patterns provides evidence for the interaction that exists between data-driven mechanisms and cognitive principles in the complex process of second language acquisition.

Preclausal Patterns in Language Acquisition: A Study of Spanish-Speaking Children in Chile

1989 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 963-967
Author(s):  
David K. Carson ◽  
Omer Silva
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Day Care ◽  
First Language ◽  
State Action ◽  
Spanish Speaking

Language utterances were recorded in three groups of 1- to 3-yr.-old day care children in Valdivia, Chile. An analysis of the preclausal patterns of language development according to the model outlined by Hubbell (1988) indicated that 4 of 12 major utterances—experiencer-state, action-object, agent-action, and negation-X—accounted for 68% of the total number of utterances recorded. The results suggest that preclausal patterns in language development of Spanish-speaking children are similar to and yet different in some respects from those of children who acquire English as their first language.

On the origins of Chota Valley Spanish

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandro Sessarego
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Minimal Contact ◽  
Acquisition Processes

Chota Valley Spanish (CVS) is an Afro-Hispanic dialect spoken in the provinces of Imbabura and Carchi, Ecuador. The structure of CVS is relatively similar to Spanish, even though the conditions that characterized colonial Chota Valley seem — at a first glance — to have been ideal for a creole language to develop: a low white/black ratio, harsh working conditions on sugarcane plantations, massive introduction of African-born workers, and minimal contact with the outside Spanish speaking world (Schwegler 1999: 240; McWhorter 2000: 10–11). Two main hypotheses have been proposed to account for this fact: (a) the Monogenesis Hypothesis (Schwegler 1999); (b) the Afrogenesis Hypothesis (McWhorter 2000). In the present paper, the linguistic and sociohistorical evidence available for CVS is analyzed. Findings indicate that the long assumed creolizing conditions for CVS were not in place in colonial Chota Valley and therefore hypotheses (a) and (b) do not accurately explain the true nature and evolution of this language. The present study suggests that CVS can be better analyzed as the result of intermediate and advanced second language acquisition processes, which do not imply a previous creole stage.

Morpheme Data Analysis in Second Language Acquisition Research

1988 ◽  
Vol 79-80 ◽  
pp. 77-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Pica
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Production Accuracy

Abstract This article will review options which confront second language acquisition researchers in their analysis of a learner’s morpheme production. It will first critically examine several different procedures which can be used to compute production accuracy, particularly when assigning values to morpheme oversuppliance, substitution, and regularization, and then review various ways in which morpheme suppliance scores can be computed within individual linguistic contexts or on overall basis, across a speaker’s corpus. Conversations with 18 native Spanish speaking adult acquirers of English L2 will be used to highlight the often contradictory results obtained when one procedure is chosen over another to quantify the same corpus of morphemes, and to set forth problems which arise when comparisons are made of learners whose morpheme production accuracy has not been computed under the same procedures. Finally, the argument will be made that issues arising from procedural choices in morpheme data analysis are also relevant to research on other dimensions of second language acquisition.

Motion-Verb Generalizations in English and Spanish: Influences of Language and Syntax

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 363-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letitia R. Naigles ◽  
Paula Terrazas
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
Linguistic Relativity ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Motion Verbs ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Motion Events ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Motion Verb

English and Spanish speakers differ in the ways they talk about motion events, but how have these different modes of expression become instantiated as differing generalizations—as syntactic rules, lexical patterns, or both? In two studies, we asked English- and Spanish-speaking adults to interpret novel motion verbs presented in three types of sentence frames. Overall, English speakers expected novel verbs to encode the manner of motion, whereas Spanish speakers expected the verbs to encode the path of motion. The sentence frames also significantly affected how the speakers interpreted the novel verbs. We conclude that speakers of different languages represent their different generalizations about the composition of motion verbs both lexically and syntactically, and discuss how these generalizations might be important for issues of language acquisition and linguistic relativity.

scholarly journals A Review of Theories in L2 Socialization and Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. p109
Author(s):  
Lili Wang
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
L2 Processing

In the past 20 years, there is a shifting trend in the second language acquisition (SLA) field departing from the traditional “logical science” (Zuengler & Miller, 2006) to a context-oriented perspective for its robust power in exploring social factors beyond individual internal cognition in L2 processing research. While context-oriented researchers claim the formal linguistic-focused research decontextualizes L2 learning from its environment and thus is problematic to comprehensively explain the L2 acquisition process, some scholars taking formal linguistic perspectives resist such critique and contend that social conditions are neither sufficient nor “necessary for scientific discovery” (Zuengler & Miller, 2006, p. 15). Within this paper, I will interrogate what differentiates the cognitive paradigm from L2 socialization paradigm in terms of second language acquisition.

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