Modeling variability in number marking in additional-language Spanish

We extended sociolinguistic methods of investigating variability to number marking on determiners and adjectives in additional-language Spanish in the current study. The participants were learners of Spanish who were pursuing an undergraduate degree in Spanish (N = 135) in either the United States o...

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Published in:Journal of the European Second Language Association 2020-10, Vol.4 (1), p.24-34
Main Authors: Gudmestad, Aarnes, Edmonds, Amanda, Metzger, Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Determiners
gender agreement
Grammatical agreement
Grammatical gender
Grammatical number
number marking
plurality
Second language learning
Sociolinguistics
spanish
Spanish as a second language
variability
variationist sla
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Summary:We extended sociolinguistic methods of investigating variability to number marking on determiners and adjectives in additional-language Spanish in the current study. The participants were learners of Spanish who were pursuing an undergraduate degree in Spanish (N = 135) in either the United States or France, and the data came from an argumentative essay. We analyzed all cases where participants marked plurality on noun-modifier pairs (k = 1950). A mixed-effects model demonstrated that both linguistic factors and individual characteristics influenced the participants’ expression of plurality. The results provided evidence of the multidimensionality of number marking and contributed to knowledge about variability in additional languages.
ISSN:2399-9101
2399-9101
DOI:10.22599/jesla.67