Abstract

MARAFIOTI, Pablo Ezequiel. Factors that influence grammatical agreement errors in a corpus of four Italian learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language. Leng. [online]. 2021, vol.49, n.2, pp.365-393.  Epub July 07, 2021. ISSN 0120-3479.  https://doi.org/10.25100/lenguaje.v49i2.10915.

This study explored different factors that are thought to influence grammatical agreement in a corpus of four Italian learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL). The study adopted a longitudinal case study design. A generalized linear mixed multinomial Bayesian model was used. The errors were classified as: (i) errors in agreement based on gender [las barrios], (ii) errors derived from not taking into account an insertion of -e- in words ending in consonant [los trenos], (iii) errors in agreement based on number [las casa] , (iv) mixed errors [les joven]. The following factors were found statistically significant: (i) type of modifier; (ii) animate nouns; (iii) three types of learning strategies; (iv) words endings similarity with those with those of the Italian words; (v) noun frequency and/or familiarity; (vi) instances whose TYPES were more frequent; (vii) instances in which both terms had plurals in “-es”; (vii) cumulated errors until the current instance.

Keywords : second language; acquisition; nominal agreement; Bayesian analysis.

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