Prada Pérez, Ana de and Gómez Soler, Inmaculada and Feroce, Nick (2021) Variable Future-Time Expression in Spanish: A Comparison between Heritage and Second Language Learners. Languages, 6 (4). p. 206. ISSN 2226-471X

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This paper examines the expression of futurity in Spanish, specifically the periphrastic future (PF), the morphological future (MF), and the present indicative (PI) in heritage language learners (HLLs) and second language learners (L2 learners), a comparison that allowed us to explore whether linguistic experience provides HLLs an advantage over L2 learners in the domain of morphosyntax. These forms (PF, MF, and PI) are regulated by certainty, temporal distance, and the presence of temporal adverbials. Previous research showed that L2 learners acquire some of these linguistic constraints and that HLLs tend to reduce the MF to modal uses. Data from a contextualized acceptability judgment task completed by 46 HLLs and 42 L2ers manipulated for verb form, certainty, temporal distance, and adverb and revealed that (i) the PF and the MF were generally rated higher than the PI, (ii) HLLs were sensitive to the three linguistic factors examined, while the L2ers’ sensitivity was modulated by proficiency, and, relatedly, (iii) the two groups differed in the effect of proficiency. For the L2 learners, an increase in proficiency led to a closer pattern to that of monolingual native speakers (only for temporal distance). Differences in exposure to and instruction in Spanish are discussed as possible sources of these differences.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Prada Pérez, Ana de, Inmaculada Gómez Soler, and Nick Feroce. 2021. Variable Future-Time Expression in Spanish: A Comparison between Heritage and Second Language Learners. Languages 6: 206. https://doi.org/10.3390/ languages6040206
Keywords:	future-time expression; morphosyntactic variation; heritage language learners; second language learners;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > Spanish
Item ID:	18015
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6040206
Depositing User:	Ana DePrada Perez
Date Deposited:	11 Jan 2024 12:36
Journal or Publication Title:	Languages
Publisher:	MDPI Journals
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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