An empirical study on the acquisition of English prepositional relative clauses by Spanish native speakers

Prepositional Relative Clauses are grammatical structures which can be formed through two different processes: Preposition Pied-Piping (PPiP) or Preposition Stranding (PS). English and Spanish are languages which differ with respect to the formation of Prepositional Relative Clauses in the sense tha...

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Autor: Maldonado Cesteros, Natalia
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Valladolid
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Palabra clave:Prepositional Relative Clauses
Preposition Pied-Piping
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spelling An empirical study on the acquisition of English prepositional relative clauses by Spanish native speakersMaldonado Cesteros, NataliaPrepositional Relative ClausesPreposition Pied-Piping5701.11 Enseñanza de LenguasPrepositional Relative Clauses are grammatical structures which can be formed through two different processes: Preposition Pied-Piping (PPiP) or Preposition Stranding (PS). English and Spanish are languages which differ with respect to the formation of Prepositional Relative Clauses in the sense that whereas in English both options are allowed, in Spanish there is only one possibility, PPiP. The following dissertation is an empirical study whose main objective is that of investigating the acquisition process of these structures in Spanish speakers who are currently studying English as their L2 and belong to different English proficiency levels. To do so, 24 L1 Spanish students were selected to complete two tasks which tested the comprehension and production of Prepositional Relative Clauses in English. The results show that the participants did not resort to their L1 when they contemplated these structures in their L2 regardless their proficiency level in English, as most of them produced and accepted the option that is not available in Spanish, or in other words, PS. Apart from this, it has been also observed an important number of cases where the preposition was omitted, which decreased as the level of proficiency in English was higher.Las cláusulas relativas preposicionales son un tipo de estructuras que pueden formularse a través de dos procesos cuyos términos en inglés son Preposition Pied-Piping (PPiP) y Preposition Stranding (PS). El inglés y el español difieren con respecto a la formación de cláusulas relativas preposicionales, puesto que mientras que en inglés ambas opciones son perfectamente posibles, en español solo existe una disponible, PPiP. El siguiente trabajo se trata de un estudio empírico que pretende investigar la adquisición de estas estructuras en hablantes de español que, actualmente, se encuentran estudiando inglés como su L2 y cuyo conocimiento del inglés varía según distintos niveles. Para llevar a cabo este objetivo, se seleccionaron a 24 estudiantes de inglés con español como L1 para completar dos tareas que ponían a prueba tanto la comprensión como la producción de cláusulas relativas preposicionales en inglés. Los resultados muestran que, independientemente de su nivel de inglés, los participantes de este estudio no recurrieron a su L1 a la hora de contemplar estas estructuras en su L2, ya que la opción más producida y aceptada fue la que no está disponible en español, es decir, PS. Además, también se ha observado un número importante de casos de omisión de la preposición en estas estructuras, aunque la proporción de estos casos resultó menor en participantes con una alta competencia en inglés.Departamento de Filología InglesaMáster en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados: Lenguas y Culturas en ContactoÁlvarez de la Fuente, María EstherUniversidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras2019info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdfhttp://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39535reponame:UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolidinstname:Universidad de ValladolidInglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/395352026-06-13T12:44:47Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv An empirical study on the acquisition of English prepositional relative clauses by Spanish native speakers
title An empirical study on the acquisition of English prepositional relative clauses by Spanish native speakers
spellingShingle An empirical study on the acquisition of English prepositional relative clauses by Spanish native speakers
Maldonado Cesteros, Natalia
Prepositional Relative Clauses
Preposition Pied-Piping
5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
title_short An empirical study on the acquisition of English prepositional relative clauses by Spanish native speakers
title_full An empirical study on the acquisition of English prepositional relative clauses by Spanish native speakers
title_fullStr An empirical study on the acquisition of English prepositional relative clauses by Spanish native speakers
title_full_unstemmed An empirical study on the acquisition of English prepositional relative clauses by Spanish native speakers
title_sort An empirical study on the acquisition of English prepositional relative clauses by Spanish native speakers
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Maldonado Cesteros, Natalia
author Maldonado Cesteros, Natalia
author_facet Maldonado Cesteros, Natalia
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Álvarez de la Fuente, María Esther
Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Prepositional Relative Clauses
Preposition Pied-Piping
5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
topic Prepositional Relative Clauses
Preposition Pied-Piping
5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
description Prepositional Relative Clauses are grammatical structures which can be formed through two different processes: Preposition Pied-Piping (PPiP) or Preposition Stranding (PS). English and Spanish are languages which differ with respect to the formation of Prepositional Relative Clauses in the sense that whereas in English both options are allowed, in Spanish there is only one possibility, PPiP. The following dissertation is an empirical study whose main objective is that of investigating the acquisition process of these structures in Spanish speakers who are currently studying English as their L2 and belong to different English proficiency levels. To do so, 24 L1 Spanish students were selected to complete two tasks which tested the comprehension and production of Prepositional Relative Clauses in English. The results show that the participants did not resort to their L1 when they contemplated these structures in their L2 regardless their proficiency level in English, as most of them produced and accepted the option that is not available in Spanish, or in other words, PS. Apart from this, it has been also observed an important number of cases where the preposition was omitted, which decreased as the level of proficiency in English was higher.
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