کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
931737 1474627 2017 16 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Language processing, acceptability, and statistical distribution: A study of null and overt subjects in Brazilian Portuguese
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
پردازش زبان، پذیرش و توزیع آماری: مطالعه افراد تهی و آشکار در پرتغالی‌های برزیلی
کلمات کلیدی
نام مکرر؛ ضمایر NULL؛ ضمایر آشکار؛ پرتغالی برزیلی؛
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Brazilian Portuguese is shifting away from null subjects toward overt subjects.
• It nevertheless shows both repeated-name and overt-pronoun processing penalties.
• Speakers’ acceptability judgments cannot explain the overt pronoun penalty.
• Corpus language use patterns also fail to explain this effect.
• A pragmatic theory that incorporates usage statistics is proposed.

Two experiments and a corpus study tested whether Brazilian Portuguese (BP), which has been argued to be shifting from null subjects toward overt subjects indeed shows a comprehension preference for reduced over fuller anaphors for salient antecedents, and whether comprehension is better explained as an imbalance between processing cost and discourse function (pragmatics account), or simply the frequency of different constructions (usage-based account). Sentences with overt pronouns were read slower (Experiment 1) but rated more acceptable (Experiment 2) than sentences with null pronouns when the antecedents were salient. Sentences with repeated names showed weaker effects than overt pronouns. The corpus analysis confirmed that BP is changing, but that null subjects are not yet infrequent, especially in academic writings. We argue that these results reflect a “pronoun avoidance strategy” in BP related to its transitory state, and propose a new view that integrates elements from both the pragmatics and usage-based accounts.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Memory and Language - Volume 92, February 2017, Pages 98–113
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