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CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS FOR LANGUAGE: MORPHOSYNTAX

Note: Sentences marked with an asterisk (*) are awkward or not grammatical.

Feature Spanish English Examples of Errors
Word order Flexible Strict Subject‐ The ball he threw.*/ He
Verb‐Object order threw the ball.
Possessives noun+of+person ’s The car of my mom is
blue*/ My mom’s car is
blue.
Adjectives Adjective follows Adjective The ball big bounced.*/
noun precedes noun The big ball bounced.
Present tense 5‐6 forms, determined 2 forms: She talk to me.* / She
verb inflection by subject: I eat talks to me.
Yo como You eat
Tú comes He eats
Él/Ella/Ud. come We eat
Nosotros comemos You all eat
Vosotros coméis They eat
Ellos comen
Use of subject Pro‐drop Pronoun is always Looks for the frog* / He
pronouns required looks for the frog.
Regular past 5‐6 forms, determined One form (‐ed) She walk to the store* /
tense by subject She walked to the store.
Double object Can be used Cannot be used I saw him the man*/ I saw
pronoun the man
Double negative Can be used Cannot be used I don’t want to do
nothing*/ I don’t want to
do anything.
Question Questions marked by Questions marked You give me a sticker?*/
formation inflection or question by word order Will you give me a sticker?
words inversion,
question words, What you think?*/ What
or addition of do do you think?

We can go?* / Can we go?
Multi‐purpose Verbs with multiple Verbs with I have 4 years*/ I am four
verbs meanings that do not multiple meanings years old.
always correspond to that do not always
English correspond to Do you have hunger?*/
Spanish Are you hungry?
(Bedore, Peña, & Kester, 2007; Goldstein & Iglesias, 2006; Kester & Gorman, 2004;
MacWhinney & Bates, 1989)

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