The Spanish Verbs Estar (To Be) and Ser (To Be) in Child-Directed Speech

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Mary Rosa Espinosa-Ochoa
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Abstract The verbs ser and estar have been a subject of great debate in the literature, mainly because the adjectives that are combined with each copula are not in complementary distribution. A cognitive linguistics approach proposes that estar allows for a comparison of the entity referred to by the utterance’s subject and that very same entity that goes through a temporal change; on the other hand, ser allows for a comparison among entities of different type (Delbecque, 1997). I provide an analysis of spontaneous child-directed speech from a longitudinal database and find variation sets that may allow children to detect the differences between ser and estar. In child-directed speech, the entities referred to by the subject of a sentence with estar are always entities that undergo a perceptible change within an activity of daily life, while the entities referred to with ser never undergo a change.
西班牙语动词Estar (To Be)和Ser (To Be)在儿童导向言语中的作用
动词ser和estar一直是文献中争论不休的一个话题,主要原因是与每个连词组合在一起的形容词不呈互补分布。一种认知语言学方法提出,estar允许将话语主体所指的实体与经历时间变化的同一实体进行比较;另一方面,ser允许在不同类型的实体之间进行比较(Delbecque, 1997)。我从纵向数据库中对自发的儿童定向语音进行了分析,并找到了可能允许儿童检测ser和estar之间差异的变异集。在儿童导向言语中,带有star的句子主语所指的实体总是在日常生活活动中经历可感知变化的实体,而带有ser的句子所指的实体则从未经历过变化。
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Psychology of Language and Communication
Psychology of Language and Communication Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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