Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface: evidence from the CEDEL2 corpus Lozano, Cristóbal Second language acquisition Adquisición de segundas lenguas Learner corpora Corpus de aprendices L2 Spanish acquisition Adquisición del español Syntax-discourse interface Pronouns CEDEL2 Corpus Escrito del Español como L2 Previous research shows that English-speaking learners of Spanish show (i) early sensitivity to the syntactic mechanisms licensing overt and null pronominal subjects, yet (i) persistent and long-lasting deficits when pronominal distribution is constrained by topic/focus at the syntax-discourse interface. It has been assumed that such vulnerability affects the whole set of phi-features of the pronominal paradigm, but I will use near-native corpus evidence to show that the observed deficits are selective, i.e., they do not affect the whole set of phi-features in the pronominal paradigm but rather a subset: due to their representational nature (which is constrained by Universal Grammar), only third person singular animate pronouns are targets for vulnerability, while the rest of the paradigm remains rather stable. 2012-10-26T08:30:33Z 2012-10-26T08:30:33Z 2009 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart Lozano, C. (2009). "Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface: evidence from the CEDEL2 corpus". In Y. Leung, N. Snape, & M. Sharwood-Smith (Eds.), Representational Deficits in Second Language Acquisition (p. 127-166). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/22165] 978-90-272-5308-8 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/22165 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Licens