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THE ACQUISITION OF SPANISH COPULA CHOICE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO LANGUAGE CHANGE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2002

Kimberly L. Geeslin
Kimberly L. Geeslin
Affiliation:
Indiana University Address correspondence to: Kimberly L. Geeslin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Ballantine Hall 844, 1020 E. Kirkwood, Bloomington, IN 47405; e-mail: kgeeslin@indiana.edu.
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Abstract

This paper argues that crossing the boundaries between sociolinguistics and second language acquisition (SLA) is essential to both fields of study (Giacalone Ramat, 1995; Preston, 1993). Specifically, data collected in an investigation of the SLA of copula choice by 77 English-speaking learners of Spanish are examined in terms of similarities to data collected in studies of language change (Gutiérrez, 1992; Silva-Corvalán, 1994). The variables used to analyze these data, Frame of Reference and Susceptibility to Change, have been shown to be useful for examining the process of the extension of estar to new [copula + adjective] contexts from a sociolinguistic perspective. The application of these variables to SLA data allows an investigation of the mirror-image relationship predicted to exist between the process of language loss and the process of language acquisition.

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Research Article
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 419 - 450
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2002 Cambridge University Press

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