Liliana Sánchez

TL;DR: This paper revisits the core tenets of the incomplete acquisition hypothesis and develops an alternative model that provides a more accurate depiction of the process that leads to what these scholars describe as the (later) effects of incomplete acquisition, thus improving the predictive power of this research program.

TL;DR: This paper presented an exploratory study on cross-linguistic interference among Quechua-Spanish bilingual children living in a language contact situation, focusing on convergence in the tense, aspectual and evidentiality systems of the two languages.

TL;DR: Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to language change in a language contact situation, and links convergence, a common set of feature values for the same functional category in both languages to the activation of features related to the informational structure of the sentence.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the contact/contracting grammars of heritage speakers of Spanish who have experienced prolonged exposure to English in the United States and what their linguistic performance reveals of their knowledge of lexical subclasses and discursive properties associated with ordering of sentential constituents.

TL;DR: The authors examined the acquisition of the featural constraints on clitic and null distribution in Spanish among simultaneous and sequential Chinese-Spanish bilinguals from Peru and found that late learners avoided using clitics and relied on lexical and null objects.