This cross-sectional study of the oral interlanguage of forty students at the end of their fourth semester of universitv level Spanish, measures the accuracy with which correct forms were produced vis-a-vis the following grammatical categories: aspect, number, person, mood, tense and gender. The results of the study show that gender was the most problenratic of the atirrementioned categories. In adittion, within each category a positive correlation was found between frecuency of the required use of the unmarked form and the accuracy with which it was realized. Finally plausible explanations for these phenomena are offered.
Lafford, B. A., & Collentine, J. G. (2017). The telltale targets: an analysis of access errors in the speech of intermediate students of spanish. Lenguas Modernas, (16), 143–161. Retrieved from https://byzantion.uchile.cl/index.php/LM/article/view/45830
