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Volume 28, Issue 1
  • ISSN 0213-2028
  • E-ISSN: 2254-6774
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Abstract

The current study builds on research on mood distinction in Spanish, which has focused on the subjunctive mood, by examining the full inventory of verb forms that second-language learners and native speakers (NSs) of Spanish use in mood-choice contexts. Twenty NSs and 130 learners corresponding to five proficiency levels completed three oral-elicitation tasks. The results show that participants use a wide repertoire of tense/mood/aspect forms in mood-choice contexts and that NSs and learners use largely the same forms. An analysis of the conditional and imperfect suggests that learners tend to restructure and strengthen their form-function connections between these verb forms and a range of functions.

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2015-01-01
2025-02-11
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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): mood distinction; native speakers; second language acquisition; variation
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