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Processing Spanish ser and estar: Discourse and Gender-Based Differences
Background: Spanish copulas ser and estar (translated as English “be”) have distinct distributional patterns [1,2,3,4,5]. Locative predicates typically appear with estar, while nominal predicates typically appear with ser. Adjectival predicates sometimes, but not always, may combine with either copula, and this gives rise to differing interpretations. Crucially for our purposes, individuallevel...
متن کامل“Ser” and “Estar”: Individual/Stage level predicates or aspect?
The distribution of copular verbs in Spanish is one of the most researched topics in Spanish linguistics: from traditional grammarians to contemporary linguists, many have attempted to capture a very complex and puzzling distribution. As is well-known, Spanish has two main copular verbs, ser and estar, that overlap in a number of contexts. As a first approximation ser combines with predicates t...
متن کاملAcquisition of copulas ser and estar in Spanish: learning lexico-semantics, syntax and discourse
Although there are a very large number of proposals in the literature to account for the complex distribution of the copulas ser and estar in Spanish and Portuguese (Bello 1951; Gili Gaya 1955; Querido 1976; Luján 1981; Lema 1995; Schmitt 1992, 2004; Maienborn 2000, 2003), very little is known about children’s acquisition of these two highly frequent copula verbs. The only acquisition study we ...
متن کاملMaking discourse-dependent decisions: The case of the copulas ser and estar in Spanish
We present the results of two experiments (an Elicitation Task and a Picture Matching Task) that test 4–5 year-old children’s ability to distinguish between the Spanish copulas ser and estar, when copula choice depended on the properties of the context. Departing from an analysis that relies on two different types of stative predicates (stativity associated with lack of aspectual information an...
متن کاملPuerto Rican Children’s Knowledge of the Spanish Copulas Ser and Estar with Adjectives
This study examines the comprehension of the Spanish copulas ser and estar by Puerto Rican children between the ages of 4;0-7;0 (M = 5;8). Fifty-two Spanish-speaking children (20 boys and 32 girls) were presented with a picture matching task that included known cartoon characters. After having heard and seen a story, children had to decide which character responds to a question that included on...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1050-0049,1050-0049
DOI: 10.17161/iallt.v35i2.8389