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The Relationship between Working Memory and Sociolinguistic Variation in First and Second Languages: The Case of Spanish Subject Pronouns.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Relationship between Working Memory and Sociolinguistic Variation in First and Second Languages: The Case of Spanish Subject Pronouns./
Author:	Zahler, Sara.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	472 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-12A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10841553
ISBN:	9780438268890

The Relationship between Working Memory and Sociolinguistic Variation in First and Second Languages: The Case of Spanish Subject Pronouns.
Zahler, Sara.

The Relationship between Working Memory and Sociolinguistic Variation in First and Second Languages: The Case of Spanish Subject Pronouns. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 472 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2018.

The goal of this study is to examine variable patterns of subject expression in three participant groups who differ according to working memory abilities: native speakers, 4th year advanced learners, and graduate-level learners of Spanish. Research has shown that native speakers and learners alike vary their use of subject forms according to a range of linguistic and extralinguistic constraints. However, recent research has suggested these speakers can demonstrate different patterns of variation when grouped according to individual speaker characteristics. In order to better understand the role of cognitive constraints in patterns of variation, the current study compares the patterns of subject expression in second learners and native speakers of Spanish with high and low working memory abilities.

ISBN: 9780438268890Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

The Relationship between Working Memory and Sociolinguistic Variation in First and Second Languages: The Case of Spanish Subject Pronouns.
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520 $a The goal of this study is to examine variable patterns of subject expression in three participant groups who differ according to working memory abilities: native speakers, 4th year advanced learners, and graduate-level learners of Spanish. Research has shown that native speakers and learners alike vary their use of subject forms according to a range of linguistic and extralinguistic constraints. However, recent research has suggested these speakers can demonstrate different patterns of variation when grouped according to individual speaker characteristics. In order to better understand the role of cognitive constraints in patterns of variation, the current study compares the patterns of subject expression in second learners and native speakers of Spanish with high and low working memory abilities.
520 $a A total of 90 participants took part in the study: 30 second language learners of Spanish in 4th year college-level Spanish courses, 30 second language learners of Spanish in graduate-level Spanish courses, and 30 native speakers of Spanish. Participants completed seven tasks: a written contextualized task, an oral response task, an Operation Span Task, the WASI-II, a 20-item grammar task, a vocabulary task, and a background questionnaire. Each participant group (native speakers, 4th year learners and graduate-level learners) was divided into high, middle and low working memory groups. Following the variationist method, the linguistic and extralinguistic constraints on patterns of subject variation were determined for the high and low working memory groups for each participant group.
520 $a Results indicate that as proficiency and working memory ability increase, learners pattern more like native-speakers: the constraints that govern their subject form use and selection in Spanish become more similar to those that govern native speaker variation. Additionally, results indicate that native speakers who differ according to working memory ability also demonstrate distinct patterns of subject expression. Specifically, native speakers with higher working memory abilities were less affected by distance constraints and were more likely to use overt subjects in ambiguous contexts during production. The differing role of working memory in first and second languages will be discussed and the implications of these results to sociolinguistic and second language theory will be explored.
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