Corrine McCarthy

List of John Benjamins publications in which Corrine McCarthy is involved.

Articles

McCarthy, Corrine 2012  Modeling morphological variation and development: Person and number in L2 Spanish Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:1, pp. 25–53 | Article

This paper proposes a model of morphological variation and development grounded in feature-geometric theory. It tests two hypotheses that follow from this model on a corpus of data from speakers of Spanish as a second language (L2). First, variation is systematic; default, underspecified feature… read more

McCarthy, Corrine 2006 Default Morphology in Second Language Spanish: Missing Inflection or Underspecified Inflection? New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics, Nishida, Chiyo and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil (eds.), pp. 201–212 | Article

Morphological variability is a persistent and systematic phenomenon whose source is the subject of current debate in second language theory. In this paper, I argue that variability is not equivalent to missing inflection, as defaults are typically incorrectly inflected for tense and person-number… read more