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T1 Acquisition of modal readings of the Imperfect tense in L2 Spanish
A1 Mañas Navarrete, Iban
A1 Rosado Villegas, Elisa
A1 Mujcinovic, Sonja
A1 Fullana Rivera, Natalia
K1 Español (Lengua) Estudio y enseñanza
K1 Imperfect/Preterite
K1 Second language
K1 Timed Acceptability Judgments Task
K1 Imperfecto/Pretérito
K1 Segunda lengua
K1 Tarea de Juicios de Aceptabilidad Temporizada
K1 5505.10 Filología
AB The Imperfect/Preterite aspectual contrast is one of the most studied topics in Spanish as a second language research. However, there are few works focused on describing the acquisition of modal uses of the Imperfect by L2 speakers. This paper investigates the L1 Russian L2 Spanish speakers’ mastery of politeness, evidential and nonfactual modal values of the Imperfect. Based on a Timed Acceptability Judgments Task (TAJT), this study examines the degree of acceptability of Imperfect forms in modal contexts in three groups of advanced level L2 Spanish learners. The results show that only the Imperfect of politeness achieves acceptance rates similar to those of native speakers at the most advanced levels of proficiency. The high degree of lexicalization of some imperfect forms, which function as pragmatic routines in certain communicative situations, is alleged to facilitate this tendency. In contrast, the evidential and nonfactual Imperfect forms present greater challenges for the L2 Spanish speakers. The results of our study indicate that (i) the imperfect forms are not recognized as legitimate alternatives for marking evidentiality and nonfactuality and (ii) reflect a partial form-function mapping of learners’ knowledge of the Imperfect and its associated values
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1048-9223
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/68736
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/68736
LA eng
NO Language Acquisition, 2024, vol. 31, p. 1- 29
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 16-jul-2024