The acquisition of dative alternation in English by Spanish learners

  1. Ainara Imaz Agirre 1
  1. 1 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
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    Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01460j859

Revue:
VIAL, Vigo international journal of applied linguistics

ISSN: 1697-0381

Année de publication: 2015

Número: 12

Pages: 63-90

Type: Article

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Résumé

Este estudio investiga la adquisición de Construcciones de Doble Objeto (DOC) (Mary gave George a biscuit) por parte de 90 hablantes de castellano como primera lengua (L1) e inglés como segunda lengua (L2) El objetivo es determinar si (i) los aprendices muestran alguna diferencia cuando evalúan construcciones preposicionales (PPC) (Mary gave a biscuit to George) en contraste con DOCs, así como si se aprecian asimetrías en verbos meta e benefactivos, (ii) los hablantes de L2 son sensibles a restricciones morfológicas y semánticas, (iii) el nivel de inglés tiene algún efecto en la sensibilidad de los juicios emitidos por los aprendices. Los participantes en el estudio, con distintos niveles de conocimiento (principiantes,intermedios y avanzados), completaron dos tareas de juicios de aceptabilidad: una tarea de lectura auto-pautada y otra de lectura auto-dirigida. Los resultados muestran que en los hablantes con nivel principiante se observan una transferencia total de su L1. Sin embargo, entre los hablantes con mayor nivel de conocimiento de la L2 se observan efectos de sobregeneralización y de bloqueo negativo, aunque se reducen con un mayor conocimiento de la L2.

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