Nicholas M. Blaker
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicholas M. Blaker is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 4. Revisiting the acquisition of the variable perfective past in L2 Spanish during short-term study abroad Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin, Solon, Megan, Matthew Kanwit and Aarnes Gudmestad (eds.), pp. 89–115 | Chapter
This study investigates the acquisition of past-time in L2 Spanish, focusing on variation between the preterite and present perfect (PP) through a combined variationist/concept-oriented approach. Learners before and after study abroad (SA) in León, Spain, and native speakers (NSs) from the same… read more
2024 Chapter 9. The influence of temporal adverbials and lexical aspect on variable preterite and imperfect selection in native and second language Spanish: A variationist account Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism, Gradoville, Michael and Sean McKinnon (eds.), pp. 222–244 | Chapter
This study adopts a variationist approach to SLA to investigate the influence of temporal adverbials and lexical aspect on variable preterite and imperfect selection. A total of 110 L2 Spanish learners at varying proficiency levels and 15 native speakers of Spanish completed a contextualized… read more
2023 Review of Delgado-Díaz (2021): The evolution of Spanish past forms Spanish in Context 20:3, pp. 642–650 | Review