Carmen Silva-Corvalan
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Carmen Silva-Corvalan's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Carmen Silva-Corvalan Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carmen Silva-Corvalán is a Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics at the University of Southern California, where she taught since she obtained her doctoral degree at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1979. Silva-Corvalán has published extensively on bilingualism and language contact, and on the semantic and discourse-pragmatic constraints which condition syntactic variation. Silva-Corvalan was one of the four chief editors of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Cambridge University Press.
Carmen Silva-Corvalan's Published Works
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Published Works
- Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles (1996) (657)
- Bilingualism and language change: The Extension of Estar in Los Angeles Spanish (1986) (143)
- The gradual loss of mood distinctions in Los Angeles Spanish (1994) (125)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: Spanish and English in the First Six Years (2014) (116)
- First language attrition: Spanish language attrition in a contact situation with English (1991) (110)
- Language contact and change (1994) (107)
- Tense and Aspect in Oral Spanish Narrative: Context and Meaning (1983) (107)
- Language dominance in bilinguals: issues of measurement and operationalization (2016) (104)
- The Limits of Convergence in Language Contact (2008) (75)
- Spanish in Four Continents: Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism. (1996) (72)
- The acquisition of ser, estar (and be) by a Spanish–English bilingual child: The early stages* (2008) (63)
- Dominance and proficiency in early and late bilingualism (2016) (52)
- On the permeability of grammars: Evidence from Spanish and English contact (1993) (41)
- On Borrowing as a Mechanism of Syntactic Change (1998) (31)
- Dominance in bilingualism: Foundations of measurement, with insights from the study of handedness (2016) (28)
- Current Issues in Studies in Language Contact. (1990) (27)
- Digging into dominance: A closer look at language dominance in bilinguals (2016) (23)
- Semantic and pragmatic factors in syntactic change (1984) (23)
- Related but different: The two concepts of language dominance and language proficiency (2016) (22)
- Simultaneous bilingualism: Early developments, incomplete later outcomes? (2018) (21)
- The acquisition of Spanish by third generation children (2014) (19)
- 1. Subjects in early dual language development: A case study of a Spanish-English bilingual child (2007) (15)
- Variation and Convergence (1990) (12)
- Lexico-syntactic modeling across the bilingual continuum (1995) (12)
- Balance patterns in early bilingual acquisition: A longitudinal study of word comprehension and production (2016) (12)
- Contextuel Conditions for the Interpretation of poder and deber in Spanish (1995) (12)
- Editorial: State of BLC (2009) (11)
- The social profile of a syntactico-semantic variable: three verb forms in old Castile (1986) (10)
- Spanish clitics in a contact situation (1993) (10)
- Analyzing Linguistic Variation: Statistical Models and Methods (2006) (10)
- Bilingual acquisition: Difference or incompleteness? (2018) (8)
- Assessing the relationship between input and strength of language development: A study on Italian–English bilingual children (2016) (8)
- On the problem of meaning in sociolinguistic studies of syntactic variation (1986) (7)
- A speech event analysis of tense and aspect in Spanish (1984) (7)
- THE SOCIAL CONTEXT CONTRIBUTES TO THE INCOMPLETE ACQUISITION OF ASPECTS OF HERITAGE LANGUAGES (2019) (7)
- Measuring language dominance in bilingual children: Implications for crosslinguistic influence (2016) (7)
- Acquisition of Spanish in Bilingual Contexts (2012) (6)
- Cross-generational bilingualism: theoretical implications of language attrition (1991) (6)
- Early Spanish-English Bilingualism: Theoretical Issues, Empirical Analyses (2007) (6)
- Conditional for Subjunctive in Old Castile (1982) (6)
- Past and present perspectives on language change in US Spanish (1989) (5)
- Modality and semantic change (1985) (5)
- On the permeability of grammars (1993) (5)
- The Ilokano Causative in Universal Grammar (1978) (4)
- An investigation of phonological and syntactic variation in spoken Chilean Spanish (1979) (3)
- The acquisition of ser, estar, and be (2014) (2)
- Early bilinguals and adult heritage speakers : What are the links ? 1 (2015) (2)
- Referent tracking in oral Spanish (1998) (1)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: The order of constituents: subject position in English and Spanish (2014) (1)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: Introduction (2014) (1)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: Subjects in English and Spanish (2014) (0)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: Calculation of MLUw (2014) (0)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: Methodology (2014) (0)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: Discussion and conclusions (2014) (0)
- Thomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon (eds.), Language variation and change in the American Midland: A new look at ‘Heartland’ English (2007) (0)
- 1. Subjects in early dual language development (2007) (0)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: The development of verb morphology (2014) (0)
- The siblings’ early verb lexicon in English and Spanish (2014) (0)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: References (2014) (0)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: Bilingual development (2014) (0)
- Comments on the paper by Zobl (1984) (0)
- Bilingual Language Acquisition: Excerpt from an adapted Goldilocks story (2014) (0)
- Spanish adjectives used with copulas up to age 6;0 (2014) (0)
- The Language of the isleños: Vestigial Spanish in Louisiana@@@The Language of the islenos: Vestigial Spanish in Louisiana (1992) (0)
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