Publication: What is the source of L1 attrition? the effect of recent L1 re-exposure on Spanish speakers under L1 attrition
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2016
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Cambridge University Press
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The recent hypothesis that L1 attrition affects the ability to process interface structures but not knowledge representations (Sorace, 2011) is tested by investigating the effects of recent L1 re-exposure on antecedent preferences for Spanish pronominal subjects, using offline judgements and online eye-tracking measures. Participants included a group of native Spanish speakers experiencing L1 attrition (‘attriters’), a second group of attriters exposed exclusively to Spanish before they were tested (‘re-exposed’), and a control group of Spanish monolinguals. The judgement data shows no significant differences between the groups. Moreover, the monolingual and re-exposed groups are not significantly different from each other in the eye-tracking data. The results of this novel manipulation indicate that attrition effects decrease due to L1 re-exposure, and that bilinguals are sensitive to input changes. Taken together, the findings suggest that attrition affects online sensitivity with interface structures rather than causing a permanent change in speakers’ L1 knowledge representations.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Cambridge University Press in "Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19(3), 520–532", available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000152
Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo publicado por Cambridge University Press en "Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19(3), 520–532", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000152
Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo publicado por Cambridge University Press en "Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19(3), 520–532", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000152
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L1 attrition, L1 re-exposure, eye-tracking, subject pronouns, Spanish
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Chamorro, G., Sorace, A., & Sturt, P. (2016). What is the source of L1 attrition? the effect of recent L1 re-exposure on Spanish speakers under L1 attrition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19(3), 520–532. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000152
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Filología
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Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas