Heritage Grammars and Language Change: the Case of Clitic Doubling in Spanish

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Autores principales: Martínez Bruera, Mercedes, Weingärtner, Daniel, Listanti, Andrea, Gattei, Carolina, Álvarez, Carlos J., Barber, Horacio, Rinke, Esther, Lago, Sol
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Publicado: Heritage Language Journal (e-ISSN: 1550-7076) 2025
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spelling I57-R163-20.500.13098-137082025-10-16T05:01:56Z Heritage Grammars and Language Change: the Case of Clitic Doubling in Spanish Martínez Bruera, Mercedes Weingärtner, Daniel Listanti, Andrea Gattei, Carolina Álvarez, Carlos J. Barber, Horacio Rinke, Esther Lago, Sol Lingüística Linguistics Psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics Este artículo se encuentra archivado en el Repositorio Digital Universidad Torcuato Di Tella exclusivamente para su preservación y archivo. Por cuestiones de copyright solo puede consultarse en Biblioteca Di Tella. La versión preprint de este trabajo puede descargarse a texto completo en https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/13516 Some differences between the grammars of heritage and monolingual speakers have been attributed to grammatical innovation, such that heritage behavior may reflect ongoing patterns of diachronic change. We examined this claim by comparing the acceptability of clitic doubling in three different speaker groups: monolingual and heritage speakers of European Spanish, and Rioplatense Spanish monolinguals. Accusative clitic doubling is grammaticalized in Rioplatense but not in European Spanish, consistent with Rioplatense Spanish being a more diachronically innovative variety. If heritage speakers mirror diachronic change, they may perform more similarly to Rioplatense than European monolinguals. The results of an acceptability judgement task showed that heritage speakers had robust knowledge of clitics but did not show evidence of progressive behavior with accusative clitic doubling. We propose that grammatical innovation may crucially depend on the demographic characteristics of heritage speakers and on the grammatical properties of the phenomenon tested. Martinez Bruera, M., Weingärtner, D., Listanti, A., Gattei, C., Alvarez, C. J., Barber, H., Rinke, E., & Lago, S. (2025). Heritage Grammars and Language Change: the Case of Clitic Doubling in Spanish. Heritage Language Journal, 22(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10048 Heritage Language Journal (e-ISSN: 1550-7076) 2025-10-15T18:35:42Z 2025-09-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/article https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/13708 eng Heritage Language Journal (e-ISSN: 1550-7076) info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=es pp. 1-32 application/pdf application/pdf
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topic Lingüística
Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics
spellingShingle Lingüística
Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Martínez Bruera, Mercedes
Weingärtner, Daniel
Listanti, Andrea
Gattei, Carolina
Álvarez, Carlos J.
Barber, Horacio
Rinke, Esther
Lago, Sol
Heritage Grammars and Language Change: the Case of Clitic Doubling in Spanish
topic_facet Lingüística
Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics
description Este artículo se encuentra archivado en el Repositorio Digital Universidad Torcuato Di Tella exclusivamente para su preservación y archivo. Por cuestiones de copyright solo puede consultarse en Biblioteca Di Tella. La versión preprint de este trabajo puede descargarse a texto completo en https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/13516
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author Martínez Bruera, Mercedes
Weingärtner, Daniel
Listanti, Andrea
Gattei, Carolina
Álvarez, Carlos J.
Barber, Horacio
Rinke, Esther
Lago, Sol
author_facet Martínez Bruera, Mercedes
Weingärtner, Daniel
Listanti, Andrea
Gattei, Carolina
Álvarez, Carlos J.
Barber, Horacio
Rinke, Esther
Lago, Sol
author_sort Martínez Bruera, Mercedes
title Heritage Grammars and Language Change: the Case of Clitic Doubling in Spanish
title_short Heritage Grammars and Language Change: the Case of Clitic Doubling in Spanish
title_full Heritage Grammars and Language Change: the Case of Clitic Doubling in Spanish
title_fullStr Heritage Grammars and Language Change: the Case of Clitic Doubling in Spanish
title_full_unstemmed Heritage Grammars and Language Change: the Case of Clitic Doubling in Spanish
title_sort heritage grammars and language change: the case of clitic doubling in spanish
publisher Heritage Language Journal (e-ISSN: 1550-7076)
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