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Acquisition of the Order between Subject and Verb in Spanish as a Second Language: A Study Based on Chinese Learners
Meili Deng

Abstract
This research investigates the acquisition of the order between subject and intransitive verbs in L2 Spanish under the lexical-semantic constraints and lexical-semantic-pragmatic constraints, based on Chinese speaker learners. In Spanish the subject can be in the preverbal position (SV) or post verbal position (VS), but the order between subject and intransitive verbs is highly determined by context, and it is interpreted differently. And in Chinese there is the locative structure, similar to Spanish, but it follows different restrictions with respect to the order SV/VS. For this study, fourteen (14) Chinese speaker learners of L2 Spanish and a control group of native speakers of Spanish participated in the same language tasks based on judgments of grammaticality. With the statistical results, we will make a justification about the interface hypothesis (IH).

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