ON COMPLEXITY AND DIVERGENCE IN HERITAGE LANGUAGE GRAMMARS THE CASE OF DOUBLE MOOD SELECTION IN REPORTED SPEECH CONTEXTS

• Published in: Studies in second language acquisition Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 818 - 842
• Main Author: Perez-Cortes, Silvia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Cambridge University Press 01.07.2022
• Subjects: Comparative Analysis; Contrastive Linguistics; Grammar; Grammatical mood; Heritage Education; Heritage language; Language; Language Dominance; Language grammars; Language Proficiency; Language Research; Language Usage; Language Variation; Linguistics; Morphology; Morphology (Languages); Native Language; Pragmatics; Second Language Learning; Semantics; Semiotics; Spanish; Spanish language; Speech Communication; Subjunctive; Task Analysis; Verbs

For more than a decade, research on heritage speakers’ (HSs’) mood selection has documented a high degree of variability in their interpretation and use of mood morphology in variable contexts. Most of the previous literature, however, has focused on late-acquired alternations, and often limited ana...