Claudia H. Sanchez-Gutierrez
List of John Benjamins publications in which Claudia H. Sanchez-Gutierrez is involved.
2025 Recognition advantage of proper names: A case of categorial semantics The Mental Lexicon 20:1, pp. 1–36 | Article
This study investigates whether the recognition advantage of proper names (PN) over common nouns (CN) — reported in several languages — is also observed in Spanish, and whether different types of PN (e.g., personal vs. geographical) are affected to the same extent. Drawing on semantic theories… read more
2024 Predictors of accuracy in L2 Spanish preterit-imperfect production International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 10:2, pp. 301–337 | Article
Few studies have considered the multitude of factors that influence learners’ accuracy of past tense-aspect use in L2 Spanish. The present study fills this gap by examining course-level, task-modality, obligatory tense-aspect, and verb frequency and regularity as predictors of English-dominant… read more
2023 3K-LEx-MC: The creation and validation of a multiple-choice vocabulary placement test for Spanish language learners ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 174:1, pp. 135–165 | Article
This study presents the development and validation of a 132-item Spanish-English bilingual multiple-choice vocabulary test based on the 3,000 most frequent lemmas that distinguishes between North American university students who satisfy the Foreign Language requirement and those who need to… read more
2021 Lexical diversity in an L2 Spanish learner corpus: The effect of topic-related variables International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:2, pp. 230–258 | Article
This study examines the impact of two topic-related variables (i.e., valence polarity and everyday-life closeness) on the lexical diversity scores (i.e., MTLD) of learners of L2 Spanish at different proficiency levels. The analysis included 3,045 texts written in response to two pairs of prompts… read more
2020 What derivational suffixes should we teach in Spanish as a Second Language courses? Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions, Morales-Front, Alfonso, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz (eds.), pp. 75–94 | Chapter
Morphological awareness in a second language (L2) enhances depth of vocabulary knowledge and is better developed when taught explicitly than by mere exposure to morphologically complex words. However, suffixes are not sufficiently treated in L2 textbooks, and little is known about which suffixes… read more