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Abstract
We investigated linguistic knowledge of subjunctive mood in heritage speakers of Spanish who live in a
long-standing English-Spanish bilingual community in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Three experiments examine the constraints on
subjunctive selection. Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 employed pupillometry to investigate heritage speakers’ online sensitivity to
the presence of the subjunctive with non-variable governors (Lexical conditioning) and with negated governors (Structural
conditioning). Experiment 3 employed an elicited production task to examine production of subjunctive in the same contexts. The
findings of the heritage group were compared to those of a group of Spanish-dominant Mexican bilinguals. Results showed that in
comprehension and production, heritage speakers were as sensitive as the Spanish-dominant bilinguals to the lexical and structural
factors that condition mood selection. In comprehension, the two groups experienced an increased pupillary dilation in conditions
where the indicative was used but the subjunctive was expected. In addition, high-frequency governors and irregular subordinate
verbs boosted participants’ sensitivity to the presence of the subjunctive. In production, there were no significant differences
between heritage speakers and Spanish-dominant bilinguals when producing the subjunctive with non-variable and negated
governors.
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LAB provides an outlet for cutting-edge, contemporary studies on bilingualism. LAB assumes a broad definition of bilingualism, including: adult L2 acquisition, simultaneous child bilingualism, child L2 acquisition, adult heritage speaker competence, L1 attrition in L2/Ln environments, and adult L3/Ln acquisition. LAB solicits high quality articles of original research assuming any cognitive science approach to understanding the mental representation of bilingual language competence and performance, including cognitive linguistics, emergentism/connectionism, generative theories, psycholinguistic and processing accounts, and covering typical and atypical populations.