Article |
| Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 15-26 |
| Abbreviation: APJCR |
| e-ISSN: 2733-8096 |
| Publication date: 31 December 2020 |
| Received: 30 October 2020 / Received in Revised Form: 4 December 2020 / Accepted: 16 December 2020 |
| DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2020.1.2.15
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The Acquisition of Spanish Clitic Pronouns as a Third Language: A Corpus-based Study |
| Hui-Chuan Lu (National Cheng Kung University) An Chung Cheng (The University of Toledo) Yu-Hsin Chu (National Cheng Kung University) |
| Copyright 2020 APJCR
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Abstract |
| This corpus-based study investigated third language acquisition by Taiwanese college students in learning Spanish clitic pronouns at beginning and intermediate levels. It examined the acquisition sequences of Spanish clitic pronouns of the Chinese-speaking learners whose second language was English and third language was Spanish. The results indicated that indirect object pronouns (OP) preceded direct OP (case), first person preceded third person OP (person), masculine preceded feminine OP (gender), and animate preceded inanimate OP (animacy). The findings presented similar patterns as those of previous studies on English-speaking learners of Spanish. In further comparisons of the target forms in Chinese, English, and Spanish, the results suggested that L1 Chinese had strong influence on L3 Spanish, which accounts for the challenges that Taiwanese learners of Spanish face as they learn the Spanish clitic pronouns in the beginning stage. |
Keywords |
| Spanish Clitic Pronouns, Corpus-based, Third Language Acquisition |
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The Authors’ Addresses |
| First and Corresponding Author Hui-Chuan Lu Professor Department of Foreign Languages and Literature National Cheng Kung University 1 University Rd, East District, Tainan City 70101, TAIWAN E-mail: huichuanlu1@gmail.com Co-author Co-author |
