@inbook{3a26f072cd0f4bc787f2bbe919e86a15,
title = "The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish by Turkish speakers",
abstract = "The obligatory use of the preposition {\textquoteleft}a{\textquoteright} with animate, specific direct objects in Spanish (Juan conoce a Mar{\'i}a {\textquoteleft}Juan knows Maria{\textquoteright}) is a well-known instance of Differential Object Marking (DOM). This study investigates the acquisition of DOM in Spanish by native speakers of Turkish, a language that exemplifies DOM on the basis of case marking. Twenty native speakers of Spanish and 32 Turkish-speaking learners of Spanish completed a written production, a written comprehension, and a bimodal acceptability judgment task. Our results show that Turkish learners of Spanish are quite successful at acquiring feature specification and distribution of DOM even at low levels of proficiency. Keywords: Differential object marking; Turkish; Spanish, case; L2 acquisition",
author = "Montrul, {Silvina A.} and Ay{\c s}e G{\"u}rel",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1075/ihll.3.11mon",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9789027258021",
series = "Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "281--308",
editor = "Tiffany Judy and Silvia Perpi{\~n}{\'a}n",
booktitle = "The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings",
address = "Netherlands",
}