Edited by Sara Zahler, Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford
This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad. Research on this topic spans diverse methodological approaches, types of programs, linguistic… read more
In order to examine how a sociophonetic variable is realized in instructor input compared to speech outside the classroom, this study analyzed the production of the Spanish trill by instructors in both contexts. Different linguistic constraints conditioned the production of the… read more
En muchas variedades de español, más puede ser antepuesto o pospuesto relativo a las palabras negativas nada, nadie, nunca o ningún(o/a/os/as). Sin embargo, la frecuencia de anteposición fluctúa enormemente entre las diferentes variedades del español. En el presente estudio se expanden… read more
We examined the acceptance of the present progressive (e.g., I am traveling) with future meaning (PPF) by 82 monolingual English, monolingual Spanish, and heritage Spanish speakers. Participants evaluated on a scale of 1–5 the acceptability of the PPF in 20 contexts that were embedded in a… read more
The current study analyzed whether variation in trill pronunciation by advanced learners of Spanish is conditioned by individual differences in phonological short-term memory, executive working memory, second language vocabulary score, and years of study, as well as five linguistic variables. We… read more
This study examines the variation between the preterit and present perfect among 43 learners studying abroad in Chile and Spain. We compared their results to those of 105 Spanish learners in the at-home university context to determine whether our learners approached regional norms or if they… read more
This study reports on the production of the five Spanish vowels in stressed and unstressed contexts by English-speaking advanced learners of Spanish at two experience levels who differed according to phonological short-term memory (PSTM) capacity. Our findings indicate that learners with higher… read more
The current study examines the combined effect of type and quantity of contact with the target language on the second language development of a variable structure, ‘subject pronoun expression’ in L2 Spanish. A written contextualized task and a language contact questionnaire were given to 26… read more
This study examines variation in Spanish future-in-the-past expression across six centuries in order to determine if this variation parallels canonical future variation diachronically. Future-in-the-past tokens in the conditional (e.g., iría “would go”) and imperfect go-periphrasis (e.g., iba a ir… read more
