Full Description
This collection of articles, contributed by both experienced and novice researchers, addresses core issues in three different domains of Hispanic Linguistics: theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Together these papers provide an overview of how the analysis of Spanish contributes to current formal and experimental linguistics, while on an individual level offering fine-grained analyses and innovative proposals covering a wide range of areas such as semantics and pragmatics, syntax, morphology, phonology, prosody, dialectal variation, first, second and bilingual language acquisition, as well as sociolinguistics. The volume will be a resource for graduate students, academics and researchers in theoretical, experimental and descriptive linguistics in general and Hispanic Linguistics in particular.The selection of chapters included in this volume were presented at the 17th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium hosted in October 2013 by the Language Acquisition Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. Part I. Theoretical and descriptive approaches; 4. No superiority, no intervention effects: The Spanish puzzle (by Reglero, Lara); 5. Overt PRO in Romance: Towards a unification of PRO and pro (by Herbeck, Peter); 6. The semantics and pragmatics of andar and venir + gerund (by Lecanda, Lorena Sainz-Maza); 7. Sequence of tenses in complementation structures: Lexical restrictions and effects on language acquisition (by Marques, Rui); 8. Fue muerto: Suppletion in Spanish analytic passives (by Armstrong, Grant); 9. Temporal and spectral dependencies in the processing of Spanish and English stop consonant voicing (by Llanos, Fernando); 10. Segmental and prosodic conditionings on gradient voicing assimilation in Spanish (by Campos-Astorkiza, Rebeka); 11. Part II. Language acquisition; 12. The sum is more than its parts: Acquisition of clitic clusters in Spanish (by Cuervo, Maria Cristina); 13. Does agreement affect the syntax of bare nominal subjects in Russian-Spanish bilinguals? (by Camacho, Jose); 14. Perfecting the past (by LaMontagne, Joanne Markle); 15. The protracted acquisition of past tense aspectual values in child heritage Spanish (by Cuza, Alejandro); 16. Part III. Language contact and language variation; 17. Morphological adjectival intensifier variation in Lima, Peru (by Cerron-Palomino, Alvaro); 18. An experimental approach to hypercorrection in Dominican Spanish (by Bullock, Barbara E.); 19. Dialect identification and listener attributes: Do you hear la tonada? (by Lang-Rigal, Jennifer); 20. Sociophonetic analysis of young Peninsular Spanish women's voice quality (by Armstrong, Meghan E.); 21. A sociophonetic analysis of trill production in Panamanian Spanish (by Lamy, Delano S.); 22. Index
