@misc{10481/22165,
year = {2009},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/22165},
abstract = {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.},
organization = {Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia},
keywords = {Second language acquisition},
keywords = {Adquisición de segundas lenguas},
keywords = {Learner corpora},
keywords = {Corpus de aprendices},
keywords = {L2 Spanish acquisition},
keywords = {Adquisición del español},
keywords = {Syntax-discourse interface},
keywords = {Pronouns},
keywords = {CEDEL2},
keywords = {Corpus Escrito del Español como L2},
title = {Selective deficits at the syntax-discourse interface: evidence from the CEDEL2 corpus},
author = {Lozano, Cristóbal},
}