Tania Leal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tania Leal is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272
Titles
Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond. Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference
Edited by Tania Leal, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli
This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019. The studies selected for the volume reflect how the latest developments in generative syntactic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 67] 2022. vii, 318 pp.
Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova
Edited by Jacee Cho, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya
This volume presents a range of studies testing some of the latest models and hypotheses in the field of second/third language acquisition, such as the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2016), the Scalpel Model (Slabakova, 2017), and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009) to… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 55] 2018. xv, 311 pp.
2024 The power paradox in bilingualism: Weighing what we gain and what we lose by espousing and eschewing hypotheses Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 85–89 | Commentary
2023 Crosslinguistic influence from Catalan and Yucatec Maya on judgments and processing of Spanish focus Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:4, pp. 529–575 | Article
Although a bilingual’s knowledge of one language can affect the other, crosslinguistic influence (CLI) is constrained: certain domains, such as the syntax-discourse interface, are more likely to be affected. Linguists have debated CLI’s nature and cause: the Structural Overlap Hypothesis… read more
2021 Chapter 8. Case assignment in Spanish nominalizations: A self-paced reading investigation East and West of The Pentacrest: Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky, Gupton, Timothy and Elizabeth Gielau (eds.), pp. 157–188 | Chapter
Spanish nominalizations, structures in which a determiner precedes an infinitive (el susurrar de Mario “Mario’s whispering”), present a syntactic contradiction in which a verb exists within a Determiner Phrase (DP). Speakers attest two types: nominalizations co-occurring with nominal modifiers (e. read more
2018 Introduction Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova, Cho, Jacee, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya (eds.), pp. ix–xv | Introduction
2018 Chapter 2. Mapping at external interfaces: Embedded clitic left dislocations in L2 Spanish Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova, Cho, Jacee, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya (eds.), pp. 35–66 | Chapter
This study investigates embedded clitic left dislocation (CLLD), a syntax-discourse interface structure expressing topicalization, in a group of native and L2 Spanish speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced). The Interface Hypothesis (Sorace, 2011) proposes that external interfaces pose… read more
2018 Chapter 3. Data analysis and sampling: Methodological issues concerning proficiency in SLA research Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition, Gudmestad, Aarnes and Amanda Edmonds (eds.), pp. 63–88 | Chapter
This chapter addresses the construct of second-language (L2) proficiency as it pertains to L2 data analysis. In L2 studies, a common practice is to group participants into proficiency categories (i.e., groups such as ‘intermediate’ or ‘advanced’; a practice known as dichotomization). Nevertheless,… read more
2018 The realization of information focus in monolingual and bilingual native Spanish Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:2, pp. 217–251 | Article
The strategies used to signal information focus — the non-presupposed part of a sentence — in Spanish are under debate. The literature suggests that focus must appear rightmost; however, empirical evidence shows that speakers also realize focus in-situ. Moreover, there is limited research… read more
2016 Look before you move: Clitic Left Dislocation in combination with other elements in the Spanish left periphery The Acquisition and Processing of Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax: Theoretical and experimental issues, Klassen, Rachel, Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Joanne Markle LaMontagne and Almudena Basanta y Romero-Valdespino (eds.), pp. 396–428 | Article
The present study examines whether, as proposed by the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace, 2011), the syntax-discourse interface is especially vulnerable to non-native optionality even at very advanced levels. I focus on the acquisition of Clitic Left Dislocation in Spanish (CLLD), a structure that… read more