Examen 2

Question 1

What are object pronouns?

Answer 1

Clitics

Question 2

First Noun Strategy (Lee)

Answer 2

The tendency of learners to assign subject role to the first noun they encounter in a string–even if that noun is a grammatical object. (Also known as SVO).

Question 3

Strategies to assign meaning

Answer 3

Word order

Question 4

Studies on English L1 learners acquiring clitics

Answer 4

LoCoco (1987)–compared the processing strategies of 151 first-year learners of Spanish

Question 5

Lexical Aspect Hypothesis

Answer 5

Attempts to explain the observed correlation between tense/aspect morphemes according to the Relevance Principle (aspect is more relevant than tense, mood, or agreement) and Congruence Principle (learners choose the morpheme whose aspectual meaning is most congruent with the aspectual meaning of the verb). In the early stages of acquisition, morphology encodes only inheretne aspectual distinctions (i.e., it does not encode tense or grammatical aspect).

Question 6

Stages of Andersen’s LAH

Answer 6

Perfective: punctual to stative
Imperfective: stative to punctual

Question 7

El subjeto nulo–desafíos en la adquisición y estrategias para superarlos

Answer 7

1. ) Transferencia de inglés como L1 y sobreuso de pronombres explícitos en el salón de clase
2. ) IP propuesta por VanPatten, y oportunidades para producir

Question 8

El aspecto télico y atélico

Answer 8

La decisión entre primer y segundo plano (perfectivo vs. imperfectivo)

Question 9

Desafíos con adquirir el subjuntivo

Answer 9

En inglés, no se marca esta actitud.